Christmas Eve Tradition

Our Christmas Eve tradition is comprised of celebrating the arrival of Jesus

at our church's Christmas Eve service and going out for...

This tradition evolved our first year in Cali.  Trek was born a week before Christmas so we knew we wouldn't be traveling back to Alabama to spend it with our families.  What to do.

The church service was beautiful.  It ended with candlelight being passed from person to person while singing Silent Night (just like back home).  But while we would have eaten a big dinner with some family members in Alabama after church, now we were looking for a restaurant that was open on Christmas Eve, preferably not McDonalds.  We ended up at Chikara's and a tradition was born.

 Christmas Eve 2007

Christmas Eve 2011