The Hefner Family: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2011

As tradition goes, you spend all day and the night before preparing the food and it's gone within minutes. There is always about 2 minutes when everyone stops talking and just chows down. It's when everyone gets that first bite of the stuffing they have been waiting for or that one dish that gets prepared just for the holidays. For me it's the Yams. ;) I love Christmas because it's when everyone and everything stops. You get the chance to catch up with family you only see once or twice a year. You sit and reminisce about the past Christmases when so and so was still around or the good old "Remember when...." stories you hear every year. You don't care that you've heard those stories before because as you sit and look around you realize that's what family is all about. So please enjoy these pictures of my family as much as we have.

Pictures from Christmas Eve 2011.....