Christmas

Growing up, we never had Christmas dinner.  I never knew that people ate Turkey on Christmas until I was an adult.  

We had Christmas breakfast! 

We still do.  When we get together with family on Christmas we eat our traditional Christmas breakfast (even if it is 6:00 at night) and it is delicious.

We have started our own tradition of beginning  our festivities with a nice meal on Christmas eve.  We use the goblets, real dishes and silverware (ok, it isn't really silver, just metal) instead of our plastic plates and sporks. 

After dinner, we usually do a nativity, but we had almost all just performed in one that afternoon, so we skipped it that evening and jumped to opening a present.

We each got to open one and then off to bed for the kids.  Trip fell asleep with Zelda.

Daphne stayed up to help.  We had brought all the "Little People" down from the attic and cleaned them up.  Daphne arranged them for Zelda.

She also used the duplo blocks we got out of the attic to build a house.  It was very cute.

Then she went to bed and Santa came.

 

We had to spred the socks out, so there was enough room for everyone.

Santa even covered up everything with blankets, so no one could see what they got until mom and dad got up and we could see their reactions.  What a nice Santa.

Daphne was the most excited about the bird cage she got.  It meant that she got to get a pet parakeet.

We also had a present under the tree for everyone from God.  It was a reminder of the gift of his Son, that brings with him eternal life, which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God.

Merry Christmas everyone!