Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve we took the kids to "big church" for the first time. Usually Katelyn goes to "kid church" as we call it, which is the 2 year old class, but they didn't offer childcare during Christmas services, so we decided to try it anyway. She did fairly well, was quite the whole time, but we both took turns letting her go in the hallway and run a little to let off a little energy. Levi, of course, slept through the whole thing!

All dressed up for church and looking so sweet!

Katelyn LOVES all of her little plastic people right now. Here she is with the Virgin Mary from her Nativity set and some of her other people all lined up in a row. She is my little organized girl!

After church we had a "Journey to Bethlehem" dinner. To help understand the journey that Mary & Joseph had finding a place to stay the night before Jesus was born and the kinds of food they could eat (i.e. dried sausage, hard cheese, crackers, grapes, olives - we did add a few extra items - hummus, veggies...wine :) And ate it on the ground in front of the fire. We really enjoyed this and hope to make it a fun tradition over the years.

HUGS from big sister!

K and I also spent a lot of the morning making 3 different kinds of cookies/chex mix. Or...I made the cookies and she sampled them/decorated them...we had a great time!