Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Acting out the Nativity

     Now you may be wondering why we are still celebrating Christmas in February.   It would be nice to keep celebrating all year round.  And we try to remember Him as often as possible during the day and week.  
   Actually, these are from December and I am now more than a month behind on pictures again.  Can you believe that 1 month in this New Year has already gone by?   
 
  Michael, Jared & I acted out the Nativity with my Aunt & Uncle and 5 cousins.  It was fabulous!  My uncle narrated from the New Testament and the rest of us paraded around the living room in an assortment of bath robes & head gear. 
 
The whole group (Aunt Debbie is taking the picture)

The Angel comes to Joseph in a dream...
 Mary & Joseph ride to Bethlehem for the census and to be taxed.  Mary's donkey is being taken away by the cute midget.
 At the Inn in Bethlehem.  Jared decides he can do a better job than the baby doll. 
Shepherds are invited to come and see the Newborn babe.  (Jared helps the Angel spread the good news.)
 
The shepherds arrive in Bethlehem and celebrate with the little family.
Later, some very wise & beautiful queens arrive with gifts.
  King Herod sends out a ninja warrior to get rid of all cute midgets.  (Joseph is warned in a dream to take Mary & Jesus to Egypt).
Mary & Joseph return from Egypt to Nazareth. 

Woo hoo!   And that is part of the Naivity story.
     And then Jared met Santa...

It was a short lived experience even though Santa was perfectly ok.  Jared just didn't get what there was to be all excited about. 

 Oh, a candy cane!  Jared had no problem taking that and waving boodbye. 

Christmas Day was so fun!  Jared was excited to unwrap everyone's presents & play with everything. 
Finding ginger snap cookies...  (wheat free cookies are a pain to look for)  and his next favorite word was....  COOKIE!

Unwrapping gifts...

Jared loved decorating the fridge with magnets.
LOL- he's trying out his new church outfit and being silly when I asked him to smile.  This is the 'turtle face'. 

1 comment:

Lynzee said...

Love all the pictures. Great job of documenting all these fun memories!