After an eventful Saturday with the Whitaker family, the Christmas celebrations continued with the Thorntons. On Sunday we headed to my grandmother's house for the annual Thornton gathering. But oh, don't worry this won't be another boring post about a boring gathering because "Thorntons are GRRREAT," therefore we have GRRRREAT gatherings!

Step one: bring food, gather in separate rooms to eat and enjoy your food.

Step two: assign someone as the "entertainment director" for the day. This year, it was ME!

After eating dinner, my entire family gathered in the living room for some "friendly" competition including some Christmas carol trivia and anagrams. Once we finished the games, it was time to sing Christmas carols. And don't worry if you don't know the words, we have song books. Enough for the entire family! Once I distributed the song books, we sang a few songs as a family then proceeded to the best part EVER: Thornton family dirty Santa gift exchange. LOVE IT!

Once the gift giving and receiving was finished, (and believe me, no one went down without a fight for their favorite gift) the party wrapped up. My family is notorious for racing off from our get together and this year was no different; it's become quite comical actually.


Here are a few photos from the celebration: