Our newest Traditions..

This turned out to actually be our favorite tradition. We call it our dinner in Bethlahem, we had a simple meal and dressed as if we were really there, and it turned out to be the best evening ever! The kids loved the simpleness of it and the food was different and they all ate it and enjoyed it and then while we were sitting and eating, each person chose someone to be in the bible and told why they wanted to be that person and it made it so much more meaningful and special. I had my doubts about this though I thought that the littler kids would be rowdy and irrerverent but to my surprise there were not, they all really got into it and loved the whole thing, it was amazing, we are for sure doing this again next year!

The next tradition is that we had Grandma Karen make us a white stocking and we put on a piece of paper what we wanted to give Jesus this year and we put them in the stocking and then reread them on Christmas morning and read the Christmas story out of the bible before we opened presents, and we kept the pieces of paper and next year we will bring them out again and read them and then write another present to give to Jesus, we enjoyed this new tradition too!