Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, Vienna woke me up at 3 AM covered in her own vomit, poor girl (I should probably add poor me too, cause I'm quite self centered at that time of day/night). Later that morning,Cambry joined in too, afraid of being left out. Devin and I felt queasy, but managed to keep it together (physically, heaven knows that we're definitely crazy). So, we took it easy all day. We missed our family events for the day and evening which was sad, but it was nice to have this sickness to remind us of how much the Lord has blessed us, and to solely focus on Christ. A little stomach bug really isn't that bad.

In the evening, after our elaborate meal of saltines, applesauce and sprite, we drove around and saw amazing light displays in different neigborhoods. Then we did a reenactment of the nativity. Veena bug was our wise (wo)man. 

Cambry, of course, was our little Shepherd.

Myla was our angel.

Here she is appearing to the Shepherd. (Please excuse our messy house. Remember we're sick.)

Here's the shepherd bringing her sheep (cougar) to adore Jesus. (Cambry and Vienna worked really hard all month to make sure baby Jesus' bed would be very soft for this moment. Each piece of straw represents an act of service or kindness from them).

Now, the wise man coming out of the east bearing gifts.

Here they are all adoring Jesus. They brought all their stuffed animals up because Jesus was born in a stable full of animals.

The whole cast.

Then the girls got to open their Christmas jammies.

They wrote a little note to Santa and left out some cookies. Bedtime was the easiest ever that night because they didn't want Santa to pass them by because they weren't sleeping.

Santa left a few crumbs!