We had a lovely Christmas week. Monday was Christmas Eve. We cleaned up the house, baked some rolls, delivered some little candy cane reindeer to the neighbor kids, and the kids watched some sheep snow episodes (Shaun the Sheep). Ryan and Marcelaine and kids arrived around 5pm and we finished our dinner preparations: egg rolls, general tso's chicken, fried rice and chow mein, with "fried" ice cream balls for dessert. Marcelaine brought a cheeseball and holiday wassail. It was all delicious.
After dinner we reenacted the nativity. Anwyn had spent a good part of the day coordinating roles and costumes and the script. Unfortunately the little kids (meaning everyone younger than Anwyn) weren't too interested in playing their parts, but it still came out okay.
A couple of wise guys.
Shepherds startled by the appearance of the angel.
Mary (riding a donkey) and Joseph (extra authentic with his graham cracker in hand).
Cousins in their new pajamas.
Time for bed and excited for Christmas morning.
After opening up new pajamas we sent the kids off to bed. Zach and Lily settled down okay, but Anwyn was so excited I don't think she fell asleep until nearly midnight (and then woke up around 5 AM).
Christmas morning we were all awake by 7am, except for Zach. He was a little sick and hadn't slept well, so we let him sleep in a little longer and stalled the girls with their new activity books. We did stockings and ate caramel pull a parts for breakfast, then opened presents. The girls were thrilled with their new dolls, we all had fun with new cars and the new CTR town playmat, and we have lots of lego sets to build. Jared and I surprised each other by completing the university t-shirt set--a BYU t-shirt for Jared and a Duke shirt for Kristi. We enjoyed a nice quiet day at home in our pajamas, playing, watching Brave, and eating ham, etc. for dinner.
And we are really lame at taking pictures on Christmas morning, since this is all we've got!
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