We celebrated Christmas at our house this year. My parents and sister came. It was nice having them here. We continued our family traditions for Christmas Eve. Jon's brother and family, who live just 15 minutes away, came over for dinner. Christmas Eve dinner is always my Grandma's taco recipe with homemade corn tortilla shells. That tradition has been in our family for at least 35 years.
We also reenacted the Nativity. Aaron (jon's bro) is always the reader. This year Emma (3) was Mary, Lucas (8) was Joseph, David and Micah were the wise men. Our dog Phin was the donkey. Grace was the baby Jesus. She didn't want to get in the basket. And Emma was not having it that we were using a doll as the baby. A quote from Emma: "this isn't Jesus, this is a doll" (as she tosses the doll out).
After the Nativity we decorated the sugar cookies. At this point I think it was almost 8 p.m. so we had the boys quickly frost and dump the sprinkles on their cookies. As you can see they literally dumped the sprinkles. Santa really loved the cookies this year too. He just couldn't get enough. The whole evening was fun and a joy to spend with family.
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