Christmas Eve!

CHRISTMAS PLAY! Everyone wanted to love on the little Star!! Kara had asked me earlier if Tiger was going to play the star or baby Jesus?? I thought that was soo cute!

The entire Cast! The angry angel, Halle, Hayden: the innkeeper, Reggie and Kelton: Shepards, Kara: Mary, George: Joseph, and Tiger: Baby Jesus!! Baby Jesus was so good and so cute!

Hayden helping Halle the Angel!!

Mary(Kara) smiling at Joseph(George)!

Joseph leading the donkey with Mary to Bethlehem!

Everyone wanted to hold baby Tiger!!

Dinner! Notice only the adults are still eating! We had Nanny, Chris, Dallas, and Katie at our home for dinner! Later Natalie, Grandma, Grandpa, Great Grandma Benge, George, Reggie, and Knute(George and Reggie's dad) came for the play, refreshments, and a surprise visit from old St. Nick. I wasn't in control of my camera so I did not get a picture of the whole group!

Kara set the table for me! She loves everything pretty! She is such a good helper. She cleaned the entire upstairs that morning, and then helped me with dinner. Halle, Kelton and Kara went down to Grandma's house Christmas eve morning and played with Great Grandma Benge, Nanny, and Grandma! They had so much fun! Kara and Kelton came home and told me "mom you know you should never stand on a high chair table!" They continued to tell me that great grandma Benge had told them that one of her boys had stood on the high chair by the stove and then fallen off of the high chair onto the stove and burnt his head and to this day he still does not have hair on his head!! I have not checked my sources, but they were really impressed by the story. It is fun to see my little children find so much excitement and love their grandma, grandpa, and great grandma's so much!

We had a very nice Christmas Eve! The kids were very excited and wanted to make sure we were staying true to our traditions. Kara and Hayden were sure they were going to be opening pjs in their Christmas eve gift. Kara wanted to go through the play a couple times and wanted to add a few parts for the recreation of the birth of baby Jesus (we definitely should have done that)! Hayden also wanted to make sure that when we woke up in the morning that we were going to sing on every stair before we saw what Santa brought! Halle was just excited for Santa to bring her some lipstick! Kelton just went along with the crowd!