Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve Caleb and I took all the little kids to see the new Disney movie, " The Frog Princess," leaving the adults some free time to get things ready for that night. Then when we got back we enjoyed the Miller's traditional Mary and Joseph dinner. We ate 'biblical foods' (dates, fish, rice, olives, nuts, avocados, etc.) out of wooden dishes under candlelight.


Then we all were assigned a role and helped reenact the story of Baby Jesus' birth. Corbin and Caleb were innkeepers/shepherds and Makelle and I got to be angels. Corbin had his, "sorry there is no more room, our beds are all full," line down solid, right up until it was time to say it, then he barely managed to whisper it when his big moment came. But that's okay, I think it helped him better understand and/or remember the story and that was the real goal so it all worked out.




Then we got to each open a present before heading off to bed where we attempted to "fall asleep quickly before Santa came." Attempted being the key word there. Celeste made cute knit hats for all the kids (Corbin sure did fall asleep with his on that night) and we opened a new game from Jenna, called Puerto Rico. So after the kids all got settled down we got a chance to play it once before heading to bed ourselves, with rapt anticipation!