Christmas Eve with the fam

Christmas Eve we all get together at my parents house in Menifee, not sure exactly when this started but its been a while. When we were kids it was always at our grandparents house out in OC. Maybe it changed after they moved to Lake Isabella then? cause a 4 hour drive north is quite a trek. Either way its been going on a while now and its always a lot of fun. The flow of the night tend to vary depending on who shows up, ya know? dynamics of the group. In the years past we would play Rock Band and the girls would sing, I was all time drummer [with my cuz Dave pushin me off every now and again] and my brother Doug on guitar with our Dad swapping bass n guitar. That was lots of fun. Lots of other games would follow and once everyone else went to be it was a campfire or poker with the guys till the last one crashed out. This year we played a couple games but mostly just hung out, had a few drinks and chatted with each other.

As we get older people are added in to the mix or subtracted out, depending on schedules. This is the first year that my cuz Dave hasnt made it. He is now a male nurse 😉 and low man on the totem pole having to work the dirty holiday shifts nobody else wants to take. Proud of him though and hopefully a couple years from now he will have the seniority to toss some other newbie into the fire. Here are a bunch of snaps from that night.