We had a delicious pork roast dinner with apple pie and pumpkin roll for dessert. We all played Cranium Hoopla together. It was a rather funny game. Bruce and Nancy, along with Ben, Rachel, and Sam, made us feel right at home. They were so warm and welcoming and we really enjoyed our evening with them. Thank heavens for new friends!
After dessert, they allowed us to participate in a family tradition. They have some old puppets to go along with the Nativity story, and allowed our kids to put on a puppet show as Bruce read the Christmas story. Ben jumped in with the star. It was a fun way to read through the story again.
Jackson was the wise man (he must have been gazing at the star!):
We hope we didn't overstay our welcome!
When we got home, we opened the traditional Christmas Eve presents: pjs and an ornament. Because of our crazy schedule this holiday season, I didn't make the matching pjs I usually do. Instead, the kids were stuck with store bought. They all seemed to be happy with them though, at least there were no tears this year. Didn't get matching ornaments either.
(Pictures will be added later. I have gotten tired of waiting for them to load. Will retry when I have more patience for it!) (Yeah! Pictures finally added!)
The kids were excited for Santa. Jake even set his alarm for 1:45 a.m. Luckily he didn't get up then! He did get up about 11:45 to "go to the bathroom". Funny boy!
Anyhow, more about Christmas later. Merry Christmas to all our family and friends!
1 comment:
Such a cute family.
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