Christmas Eve - Kesler Style

One of the many fun Kesler traditions is sled racing. Each person gets three Ande's mints, one Hershey's kiss, two large paper clips, a santa, and as much tape as s/he wants. Then everyone builds Santa's sled (the kiss is the pack of toys, of course!). As if that wouldn't be enough, we then race them. The winner gets a gift card. Yeah, we are serious here!

Behold Heidi and Phil's (losing) sleds:

Here are all the sleds lined up ready for the races:

Bradyn, Dan, and Aaron opening presents from cousins Gail and Butch

Morgann, Steve, and Meg (the dog who was an extremely good sport with Eden chasing her around saying - in an exceedingly high-pitch - "doggie, doggie, doggie!")

Other fun Kesler traditions included LOTS of yummy food, playing the chimes, and lots of laughing!

Christmas Eve - Beck Style

On Christmas Eve day we did some sledding in my parents' front yard, then the grandkids put on a Nativity Pageant, followed by a nice lunch. Here are some fun pictures.

Eden LOVES snow!

Eden preparing for the Nativity

Binh - the cutest Wise Guy ever!

Caleb, Grandma, Binh, Paul, and Meg

Eden, Phil, Sam, Caleb, Grandma, and Binh

Punka, Mike, Lydia, Josh, Todd, Emily, Natalie, Heather, and Binh
(Binh was pretty proud of himself for getting in all the pictures)

Both tables

Food Friday - Holiday Slush

Hello Bamafam readers. This is BamDaddy here. I'm retro-posting Food Friday for this Christmas week. When I suggested a recipe to Heidi, she reminded me that I could also post on this blog. Silly Daddy. So I want to share with you a favorite Kesler family recipe that we always enjoy on Christmas Eve. I know there are a lot of slushes around out there, and maybe you've had this before. Anyway, here goes:

Ingredients:
2 cans frozen concentrate orange juice + 1 can water
2 cans frozen concentrate lemonade + 1 can water
46 oz. can pineapple juice
3-4 bananas - smashed
7-Up (or Sprite)

Instructions:
• Mix juices in the blender.
• Add banana.
• Blend well.
• Put into containers for freezing (we usually use big canning jars with metal lids, but anything you can freeze will work.
• Mix Frozen Concentrate with 7-Up to desired consistency (we just use our KitchenAid to blend it) serve.

Enjoy! Merry Christmas slushing from me (us)!