We rolled in to Grandpa and Grandma Dick's house at about 2 AM on the 23rd and stayed until Sunday morning (the 27th). Caelan and Ben and Megan have been playing with our little plastic Nativity set all month. On a couple of occasions they wanted to be the characters ("I'll be Mary," and "I want to be the Shepherd," etc). I mentioned something about acting out the Nativity story, and they just thought that was the greatest idea. Ben talked about it several times from that moment until Christmas Eve. So, we decided it would be fun to have all the little kids play the different parts in the Nativity. We were with all of Sean's family as well as his Grandma Dick and Uncle Garry and Aunt Jera. Jenny and I and Sean's mom pulled together some costumes and the kids acted out our very BRIEF version of the Nativity....and loved it. Caelan played Mary, Ben and Logan played the Wisemen, Megan and Hailey were angels, Corbin was a Shepherd, Brooklyn was the Star, and Nathy was supposed to be Joseph (but he pretty much wouldn't cooperate at all). It turned out really cute.
Christmas morning was full of all the wonder and chaos that a houseful brings. The rooms were filled with all the goods from Santa Claus as well as all the balloons on the floor. Megan was thrilled with her new little bike. She went right to town opening up anything that was packaged in a box, and emptying the contents of her entire stocking. The weather was warm and nice (very Arizona style) so the kids spent lots of time outside. We also went and saw "The Princess and the Frog" which was very cute.
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