Every year Mark Millerr put's on a Christmas Party on Christmas Eve day and have a yummy dinner, give the parents out a gift and a ham, and give each child in the family a gift. Me and Darin got a $100.00 gift card to Macy's (which we have never shopped at before) but found 100.00 worth of stuff easy, Darin got a cologne package of Chrome with a free watch and I found a way cute necklace and earrings. Then Daylon got an RC car, Rain got a Polly Pocket Boat with many little accessories, and Star got a Princess See and Say. It was a fun party and Mark Miller is very generous when it comes to Christmas time. This doesn't include the dinner party that they had just for the adults at a restaurant called Carvers. The meals are about 75.00/person and a delicious dessert. Then they also give out the Christmas bonuses that Darin makes throughout the year with each car he makes they put a certain amount away for Christmas. It's enough to buy all the kids Christmas and even enough for me and Darin.
Doesn't Rain look sooo happy?
Ok,now she does because she got a present.
Daylon is almost too big for Santa's Lap.
This is the only way I can even get Star near Santa is if I force her too by holding her while I sit on Santa's lap. She is horrified in this picture. 
This is clearly before Santa came otherwise she wouldn't have been within 20 feet of it. She liked it much better before Santa came.
So since there are 3 prego's in our immediate family and 2 extended family members, my wonderful, thoughtful, creative, amazing sister Maren came up with the idea to have a mini baby shower since we would all actually be together. So even though she planned a bunch of games, by the time we got done eating and such, my mom ( the one who goes to bed at 7pm) decided she wanted to opt directly to the presents so that is what ended up happening and then all Maren's hard work on games and etc. went down the drain. That's ok though because we have other plans to put them to good use. So Maren make a cake looking thing with 4 tiers made out of diapers for each one of us, and then there was the rest of the family that was in on it so we made out with quite a few good, fun gifts....And some priceless pictures. My favorite gift was the hooter hider....of course. But I did love all of them because I'm having a boy and it just made it all the more real. The girls pregnant go like this:
