Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Tale of Two Christmas Eves

It was the most secular of Christmas Eves ...

Lunch out at the Onion (with Aunt Bekah and Grandma):

Movie "Alvin and the Chipmunks" (good if you're a kid, watchable if you're an adult):

It was the most sacred of Christmas Eves...
Bethlehem dinner (fish, lamb, pitas, olives, spinach salad)

The Awesome Nativity play (let me introduce the players:)







The girl who got to be breech-birthing Mary (Jane)







Narrator and baby (Uncle Kevin and Court-eh-nee)









The "No room for costumes" Inn keeper (Cousin Mallory)







A Royal, growling jaguar and a brown-fur covered camel making up the manger animal menagerie (Seth and Cousin Adrienne)











The appreciative audience (Grandma Dorrie, Bekah and moi)







The Shepherds, sore amazed (Cousin Austin and Gabe)
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Heavenly Angel (Cousin Elise)
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A Wise Woman (Emma)
Birthday Cake for Jesus:











and...
Very holy pajamas:

We had only the best of times!
(And no matter WHAT I do, I cannot get this to look right and now I'm really really irritated at the Blogger word processor!)

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