Christmas

We had a very busy Christmas this year, with lots of little ways to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

We started out the festivities on the Sunday before Christmas with a Christmas play at Church.  Emeline and her other 5 year old friends got to be angels.

Here she is with two friends from church who are also in her kindergarten class.

And here's the whole sweet group of all the angels.

After the service, they had crafts and games for the kids, including face painting.  Everyone got to choose anything they want...so what did Kate choose?  Spiderman of course.

Emeline went a little more Christmas themed with a reindeer.

And Adele just had fun running around.

On Christmas Eve, we joined our friends Greg and Elizabeth for church and then came home for dinner, and birthday cake for Jesus.  This year I made a burnt almond cake.  It was yummy!

Wes smoked some salmon and we had a lovely dinner of appetizers with Great Grandma Diane and Grandpa David.

The girls were very excited to open gifts after that.

To follow the musical theme we started with Adele's birthday piano, Emeline got some drums...

Kate got a ukulele...

And Adele got a harmonica....which she hummed into cause she's still learning how to blow :)

On Christmas morning, we opened some more presents, and headed over to Aunt Diane's and Uncle Miles' for brunch, and yet again more presents :)  The matching pjs from Grandma Chris were a hit.  We let them wear them most of the day.

We came home for naps, made a quick stop at Uncle John's to see family and say Merry Christmas, then back to Aunt Diane's for Christmas dinner.    Lots of family time and good food to celebrate.

We are so grateful for the gift of Jesus and all the gifts God has given us!