I was going to TRY to fit all of our Christmas celebrations into ONE blogpost, but I it would be so large no one would bother reading it (unless of course you needed something to put you to sleep). So to spare you I thought I'd break it up a little bit.
I going to begin with our little family celebration before we skipped town...a party for Jesus. After celebrating the Advent season almost every night as a family, Todd and I felt like we needed to wrap it up before the hustle and bustle of family and friends.
We started by baking a cake (for our kids, it's not a true birthday party without cake).
Eli really thought that Jesus would like blackberries and strawberries on his cake and I agreed. So the kids carefully placed each berry...
...and voila! A birthday cake fit for a King : )
Before we cut into the cake we opened presents to each other, from each other. We let the kids shop for one another, and either they were too young, or I was too young for this to work out. I just couldn't buy what they wanted to buy...I just couldn't!! An Elmo book for $18? No way! So I may have manipulated this process more than I would have liked...maybe next year I can practice a little more restraint : ) Each person received 3 presents, just like Jesus did on his birthday. (The kids didn't even notice I had switched out some of the gifts they had picked, thank you Jesus!)
After presents we sang Happy Birthday and read the story of Jesus' birth.
If you have 5 minutes, you can listen/watch from the Jesus Storybook Bible too (by far the best version for kids and adults : )!! Such a great story, no matter what time of year.
Happy Birthday Jesus! We are more thankful than we'll ever know that you were born!
1 comment:
Yay, an update. For what it is worth, I have a couple of posts you can refer to since they are your photos antwat!
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