Our Family Tradition handed down from the Smith's and the Hancock's: Everyone gets PJs on Christmas Eve.
Our kids had so much fun acting out the nativity last year with cousins. We decided to do it again, but our cast was short in numbers. Jenna played a perfect Mary: very meek, mild, quiet, and fercely protective of her baby. She took her role very seriously. Trevor was the shepherd with Lumpy as the sheep. Jenna wouldn't even let her beloved Lumpy near her precious baby Jesus.
The Cast: (not pictured was Chad as Joseph and the narrator) Matt as the wisemAn, Jenna as Mary, Julie and Jason as the angels, and Trevor as the shepherd. Jason wanted to be an angel, because he has fond memories of being an angel with TJ last year. He refused to be Joseph. However, as it came time for the angels to speak, Jason decided he didn't want to be the angel anymore.
This picture was taken when Jason was excited about being the angel. He even wore the halo and wings for the picture and then decided it was too girlish. I think when TJ was by his side, being an angel was cool. Without TJ, it appeared to just be a girlish thing...a bit disappointing for Jason. (But hey, we have the picture for posterity sake!)
We did something new for Christmas Eve. We had made sugar cookies earlier in the week and froze them. We thawed them and decorated them for Santa. The kids also had one. Some of them dabbled in the icing a bit too much which was revealed by the sick tummies when it was time for the Christmas Eve festivities.Something we really enjoyed about this year: we acted the nativity and read stories while dinner was cooking. So, after dinner, we cleaned up, opened pajamas, watched a little Christmas movie, and then went to bed early. Usually we do the activities after dinner and the night seems to last forever.
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