Sunday, December 28, 2008

Christmas Celebration pictures

Acting out the nativity story as Papa read it from the Bible. Ariel is Joseph, Adriana: Mary, Annika: Angel Gabriel, and Dallin Baby Jesus.

Dallin woke up while Santa was busy laying out all the presents so she , oh I mean he, let him play with his train set a little early. (Thanks for making his Christmas Maegan).

Gwyneth gave Ariel this really great mosaic kit which was a big hit with all the girls and occupied them most of the day. Grandma Svetlana helped Annika do hers.

For Christmas dinner we went to our new friends' the Hendershots. They have 3 boys and one girl, just the opposite as us. If our two families were sent out to live in the wilderness together, everyone would have someone to marry. We had a fun time with them.

I finally bought some powdered sugar on the 27th so we got to make the gingerbread house.

The finished house, after which we napped, then woke up and started eating it. After tasting how scrumptious home gingerbread is, I don't think I'll ever buy a gingerbread house kit again.

4 comments:

Kazzy said...: Oh yeah... homemade gingerbread is so so good! So glad to see your new post today! Looks like you had a good Christmas :); December 29, 2008 at 12:33 AM
Heidi said...: You girls are all so beautiful! THe wildnerness thing--what a hoot! I love how your mind works!; December 29, 2008 at 12:55 AM
Anonymous said...: Oh what a fun Christmas!! The gingerbread house looks great (loved seeing Svetlana there, I forgot she came!); December 29, 2008 at 12:17 PM
molly and geoff archibald said...: it looks like so much fun-i tried to convince geoff that we should do a homemade gingerbread house this year--next year i'm going to override his veto.; December 30, 2008 at 6:31 PM

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