Christmas Eve Part I

It is a tradition of ours every Christmas Eve to get together with family and have all the children act out the Christmas story while someone reads Luke 2. I'm not sure if it's as spiritual as it is comical, but we have a great time and hopefully the children remember these special moments. Last year the older cousins were in town so our play was a little more put together, but this year the kids were all younger than usual so our usually 10 minute play turned into 2 minutes. Our Mary (played by Dave & Becca's little girl Ashlynn) loved riding the camel (played by Aaron...perfect character for him I might add!) but the scriptures were a bit to lengthy for this group (good ol' Allen did his best, but had to quickly condense it to the toddler version) and by the time it was time to have baby Jesus (played by Ashlynn's sleeping 3 month old brother Isaiah) our little Mary didn't like her costume so she took it off and she was done. She stood around long enough for the visitors to hurry and show up (all together). The Angel (played by Kyle & Shauna's little girl Cami)was cute because she was little enough to be held in the air by her mom overlooking our cast members so that it appeared she was coming down from Heaven :) It was concluded with a jedi fighting shepherd and Joseph (played by Kyle & Shauna's boys: Gideon and Blake, respectively). The one wiseman (played by Natalie) just sort of sat there laughing. However, our Baby Jesus was perfect...which is probably how it really was! :) It was a very special evening!