Christmas is such an incredibly special time of year!! I know that this post is late, but there are so many pictures from the holiday season that I wanted to add to our online journal! So I hope you don't mind revisiting a little bit of 2020 with us.
Once siblings started getting married we decided to celebrate our big family Christmas on whatever date everyone can make it to our place. But we still wanted to do something special for Christmas Eve just like we did growing up. So we created a slightly new tradition.
We have a simple, but formal supper, and then all gather in the living room and listen to Dad read the Christmas story found in Luke 2.
Then we pass out all the gifts! Instead of drawing names like we do with the entire family, we all just get random snacks and gifts for each other that we've collected during random shopping trips.
It usually ends up being a bunch of both useful and random gifts that make for a whole lot of smiles and laughs! This year we got Dad and Mom a pair of those big fuzzy pjs that are incredibly comfortable, so now we all have some!
After the gifts are unwrapped we all put on our pajamas, make a ton of yummy snacks and spend the next few hours playing games together.
Then we all head down to the den to watch a Christmas movie until we all decide to call it a night and get some sleep.
"For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord."
Luke 2:11