Christmas Eve

We enjoyed celebrating Christmas Eve with our church here - there was a 4pm family friendly service that we went to. There were lots of families and children all singing about the birth of Jesus and listening to scripture readings and short sermon by our Children's Ministry Director, Joe Brown. After the service, we enjoyed dinner with one of our Young Adult friends and then we headed off to Grandma and Grandpa's house with the boys in their PJ's. Once we arrived at my folks, my brother and his family arrived and we all went to bed to get ready for the business of Christmas the next day.

We have a new family tradition for Christmas Eve - Christmas Pasta. It's a meal that I got off of the Food Newtwork (Everday Italian - Italian Chicken Pastina). Last time I made it I was struck by how the tomatoes and parsely looked very Christmas-y, so we made it our new tradition! Here is Baxter after enjoying some.



We also had a birthday cake for Jesus - it is His birthday afterall - to again help us remember what we are celebrating (we need a lot of help remembering!). Here is Owen enjoying his piece.



Here is a self-timer picture we took of our family before the boys were changed into PJ's.



Sweet boys!