Christmas Eve

This first picture is before Christmas Eve but it was only one picture that didn't need a post so it was adopted by this post. Jen made sugar cookies with her sister Nichole and the kids helped. Here Kate is helping making the cookies. 


So to Christmas Eve, here are all the sitting cousins. Tyler was probably asleep.


Here is the Williams.


And our own alone time.


We had to have two Marys because both wanted to be the Mary. Ethan was Joseph and a doll was baby Jesus. Dan was the donkey.


We gave Anna this apron that matches one Jen made for Kate. The Williams gave Kate an ice/heat pack called Mr. Bump.


We had a great Christmas Eve. The Barnes family did something new this year and each person was asked to memorize something to share with everyone as a kind of present to everyone. The thought was inspired by a talk by Susan Tanner. Unfortunately, Diane asked us if we wanted to do it a long time ago and we didn't decide to do it until a couple days before Christmas Eve so we didn't have a chance to memorize anything very long. Hopefully we will to better this next year.