Decorations were up and ready.
Cookies were made (with my mom's help this year as they joined us for Christmas)
Gingerbread houses were assembled. (there may have been a few tears during this process)
And of course some candy was consumed. (Notice Alex's mouth)
My parents shared a kit and they definitely the won the award for neatest and most sound construction.
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| Eric's house, My house, my parents house |
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| Lucas' house, Alex's house, Ryder's house |
In the evening we acted out the nativity.
This year my Dad made his debut as the Inn Keeper where he told Joseph and Mary to "Go Away", which got laughter from all.
Ryder, the shepherd created his own sheep with a frisbee with a ball taped to it for it's head, his idea, and my mom played the angel.
My Dad also played a wiseman and was much more reverent for this role.
We finished the night with some egg nog and putting out cookies and milk for Santa, which I forgot to get a picture of this year.
It was a wonderful Christmas Eve!
What Christmas Eve traditions do you have?
I love the matching jammies! And that is so cute, making gingerbread houses together. I did that with Piglet this year, and he had so much fun. We used a really old kit, so I had to convince him that it was pretend candy so he wouldn't break a tooth on super stale candy. ;-) Our tradition is to open one gift, and to read Piglet the night before Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI love your jammies! And it looks like you guys had a great time!
ReplyDeleteThank you! We did have a wonderful day
DeleteSo your church doesn't do Candlelight services? I wanted to find matching jammies, didn't happen. Looks like you had a great Christmas/Christmas Eve. And let me guess, the tears were your parents and Eric, right. haha!
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