Lucy will be up here soon.

I need to take a picture to add of her.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve we went to Liz and Hector's house for our new annual dinner and nativity. We started the evening decorating gingerbread houses. The older kids love creating and the two younger boys love eating the candy. At this stage in life it's a bit time intensive for the parents since we get to most of the work. I don't know how thrilled they all are with me for providing this fun activity. :) After dinner we got the kids dressed up for the nativity reenactment. Our cast this year was pretty well rounded. We even had a new baby to play Jesus. This picture cracked me up because they were all fulfilling their "roles". Megan/"Mary" was tenderly touching baby Parker/"Jesus", Matthew/"Joseph" was tenderly watching over Mary, Sarah/"The Angel" was angelically watching over all, Joseph/"The Wise Man" was giving his gift to the baby, and Thomas/"The Shepard" is disgruntled by the whole experience. I think shepherds must have felt that way. ;)
I really wanted to take Thomas and the girls to see Santa this year, but I was stuck at home, so I was pleased that he made an appearance at our Christmas Eve party.
And here my kids are with their cousins all ready in their new Christmas pj's. We went home shortly after this to get everyone to bed at a decent time.
L to R: Thomas, Megan, Sarah, Baby Parker, Matthew, Joseph

3 comments:

Vicki said...

Those are some pretty cool gingerbread houses.
We had a very disgruntled red headed Joseph this year :)
-- But I am not seeing your picture... did it accidentally get erased?

Paula said...

Yay, I am glad you are updating your blog. Wish you were here for Christmas but looks like it was fun anyway.

Photo Amy said...

I was having trouble when I posted this earlier. I couldn't get it to repost until I restarted my computer. Something was amiss.