Christmas Eve

We were able to go to the Olsen's house for Christmas Eve dinner and nativity. Their little boy Nathan was Joseph and Craig and Jaclyn's baby girl played the part of Jesus. Don't let the happy pre-party pic of Kenzie fool you. She was supposed to play the part of Mary but she was being just a little temperamental that night- sorry for the tantrums everyone. I believe Keith was a shepard/wise man. He really rocked that bathrobe. It was a great night!

Christmas in Kentucky

We were so excited to have a white Christmas. We really weren't expecting one but mother nature pulled through for us and we enjoyed this peaceful view all day.

Keith and I woke up about 8 AM and opened our stockings. Mackenzie normally wakes up at 8 but she was worn out from the night before. We got antsy and ended up waking her up at 8:30- check out that sweet morning hair:

It was such a fun morning watching her open her gifts. Keith and I had a lot of fun opening gifts also. Our families were so generous to send packages and so we had a lot of fun surprises.

That was it for the pictures of the day. We went to a friends house for a yummy breakfast and then came home and prepped dinner. We had our old neighbors Justin and Neha over along with our good friends Amber and Bryan. We cooked a ham and I finally made a successful batch of homemade rolls. It wasn't nearly as good as dinner at our parents but it was a fun night and we were so happy to have good friends to spend it with.

Pre-Christmas

I have a lot of catching up to do! Keith had almost 3 weeks off for Christmas and we spent most of that time playing the wii and hanging out with different friends in the ward. We were sad we couldn't go home for Christmas but did have a lot of fun starting our own traditions.

Our friends Kameron and Jodie put together a little ugly sweater party with some other 2nd years. We ate some yummy food, played Guesstures and Ashley put together really fun crafts for the kids to do.

Derek proudly took home the trophy for ugliest sweater...fur's in though right?:

This was just a cute shot

Our ward had a Christmas party with Santa Clause and dinner. As you can see, Kenzie sat on Santa's lap for about 1 second. She wouldn't talk to him but she did give him a high five.

I also helped with our Stake Creche. My friend Brandi is on Stake Activities and she was desperate for help so she asked ME to help paint-ha! I really didn't do much but I thought this scenery turned out pretty cute. This was the stable backdrop for the children's nativity. We set up a room for the children to color and make little baby Jesus in his manger and then had this set for them to put on costumes and act out the nativity scene.

Now we'll see if I can get Christmas posted sometime soon!