Christmas Eve

Doesn't this look unappetizing?

I was upstairs folding laundry and the kids decided that they were hungry.

Alexis is such a good helper and as she says, a good ingredient mixer, that she got them each their own piece of bread with butter on it.

The butter was so thick I'm surprised they didn't all have heart attacks that day.

We decided to act out Mary and Joseph going to Bethlehem, John was the donkey. Alexis decided that she did not want to be Mary, so she was Joseph and Drew was Mary.

Drew has his teddy bear in his shirt because he was pregnant.

Here they are around the manger, which was the piano bench turned upside down.

They didn't like that there was only a blanket for him so they went and found a pillow to put underneath him so he would be comfortable.

Alexis was a shepherd looking for baby Jesus.

Madison was the bright shining start leading the way to baby Jesus.

And here she is being one of the wisemen that went looking for baby Jesus.

We stayed in Logan this year for Christmas and it was so nice to be able to sit back and relax.

We did what I've wanted to be our family tradition of reading The Night Before Christmas finally. We've never accomplished this goal because we've always had family things going on that would go too late to do it. It was nice to not have the running and shuffling this year, we enjoyed just being together.