We celebrated Christmas with my family on Christmas Eve. We went to my parents house and had a late lunch. Elyse had to sing at the Christmas Eve service at Fellowship - so after lunch we went to that. It was the children's service and all the kids attending (even if they weren't in choir) could dress up as a character (Mary, Joseph, wiseman, angel) or an animal from the manger scene. It was so cute as they read the different parts of the Christmas story - the kids were asked to come up on stage and act it out. We found an old costume from my Aunt Chris and Elyse wore it to dress up like Mary. She brought one of her baby dolls for baby Jesus.
Here she is before the service began.
Singing Silent Night with just the candles lit - my favorite part of the service!
Then we went back to my parents house to open presents and have dessert.
All the grandkids before opening presents.
Grace got a new sleeping bag from us.
Andrew was excited to get Battleship from Uncle Ryan and Aunt Misti.
Busy readers!
Then we had to get home and get the kids in bed so Santa could come!
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