1. Decorate the house. We got all the Christmas decorations up around the house. We are covered in green, red, ribbon, pine boughs, lights, etc. And our stockings are hung (we still need to embroider Zach's.)
2. Live Nativity. It was INCREDIBLE! There were live animals everywhere including camels, cows, chickens, etc. It was set up exactly like you had walked into the city of Bethlehem and all the people were in costume and character. The girls were excited to finally come upon Mary, Joseph and a real live baby Jesus laying in a manger. Beautiful. (I wasn't allowed to take pictures inside, but here is the camel that freaked Ava out.)
3. Festival of Trees. I like to take the kids here every year. The trees are spectacular and there are SO MANY. We saw all of the trees, but spent most of our time at the stage watching the little dancers on Brielle's request. Ava was happy eating her scone covered in cinnamon sugar! Each person got to chose their favorite tree and take a picture by it.Zach and the Red Sox tree.
Brielle and the Fancy Nancy tree. She liked any tree covered in pink.
Ava and the baby doll tree.
The Utah tree we chose for Scott.
I liked the Grinch tree.
4. Polar Express Primary Christmas Party. Our ward is having an adults only Christmas party, so I was asked to have a party for the Primary kids. We did a Polar Express party. It turned out great. So fun. We came in our pajamas, showed a few clips from the Polar Express movie, served pancakes and hot chocolate aboard our "train", did a craft and had Santa come.The kids were given Polar Express tickets as their invitations. The Bishop dressed as the conductor and punched their tickets when they arrived. He even had a pocket watch and train whistle.
Here we are serving hot chocolate, whipped cream and marshmallows after we watched "The Hot Chocolate song" projected on a big white sheet.
Making pine cone bird feeders.
We showed when the boy in Polar Express met Santa and received the bell. Then turned on the lights, turned off the movie and in came Santa ho ho hoing.
No picture of Ava. She was kicking, screaming and terrified if we even went near the guy.The kids received a candy cane and a bell from Santa. Then the elf stamped their tickets with "BELIEVE".
5. Gloria by Lex De Azevedo. Scott and I went out with our friends to an amazing Thai restaurant downtown for dinner. Then we saw Gloria at a beautiful Methodist church. It was a very nice night - good food, great friends, snow falling, pretty church and wonderful music of Christ's birth. 
5 comments:
So much fun! That kids party looked awesome. Good job!
I can't see the bottom stuff. There are just 3 boxes there.
That is a fantastic Polar Express Party! I want to be in your Primary. I love the stuff that you get to do to celebrated Christmas, including the Nutcracker. How do you not get stressed?
WOW! What wonderful ideas and so much fun for the primary children. Your ward bishop certainly picked the perfect primary president. And you also visit so many exciting Christmas places with your own children. You're creating lots of memorable experiences for them.
Great blog.
Based on the picture of Big Z on Brielle's and Ava's laps, that boy has been hangin around Santa a lot.
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