Christmas for us always includes making the rounds to multiple family parties. We get Christmas with the Egans (on Christmas Eve), Christmas with the Wathens (on Christmas morning) and Christmas with the Jones's (on Christmas night). Basically that adds up to a whole lot of food ... but also a lot of fun. We started this year's trip with a 27-hour marathon drive from Meridian to Centerville. When we set off on the drive, we thought that we might not stop for the night--depending on our levels of stupidity and alertness. In the end, we were anxious to get home and didn't want to waste time and money stopping in a hotel. And, fun as it may seem, the only thing to do and look at on I-40 from Memphis to Gallup, New Mexico is the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, which I have already seen three times and is really not that cool at all.
Christmas Eve included the traditional Egan Program. This means that all of the talented cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents sing and play (on piano and guitar) various Christmas carols. We used to act out the nativity every year, but there is currently a shortage of small children in the family and it got less and less cute watching Conor be a wise man.
The whole crew singing together.
Danielle, Tyler, Josh, and Ryan singing Silent Night (I think) in Portuguese, French, and English.
My grandpa--talented Egan #1--singing.
All of the Egan cousins--minus a couple. And I am the oldest of this crew!
My mom and grandpa
More to come later...
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