Christmas Eve Extravaganza

We spent Christmas Eve with Grandma and Baba Z and then all went up to celebrate with Uncle Steve-o, Aunt Catherine, and family.  Roy and I had choir practice so the kids got some good cuddle time with both grandparents, although if I understand correctly, they ditched Grandma as soon as Baba got to the couch. :)  

We had a Christmas Eve pajama dinner, which turned out to be a lot of fun.  All the cousins got to open their new Christmas pjs and wear them to eat.  My master plan was to wear them out so they'd fall asleep on the drive home and sleep through the night, but they were too excited to fall asleep in the car.  

We played games on Christmas Eve, including making snowmen out of toilet paper.  It was hilarious to try to get the toilet paper to continue to unroll as fast as Abby could spin.  Sam just loved being all wrapped up and thought it was "fuffy" (funny).

After the games, we had the cousins and some of the grown-ups dress up in nativity costumes to act out the story.  Abby was the perfect Mary.  She was the perfect balance for Sam, the wayward shepherd.  He enjoyed driving cars through the scene and trying to distract his parents with his funny antics.

Cousin Zachary (cast as Joseph) and Abby were so concerned for the baby Jesus and happy. It was a beautiful moment and made me one proud mama.