Sadly, our little family was a little slow delving into the Christmas spirit this year. This, of course, was not by choice - Chuck picked up a few extra shifts the first week of December and I've had a slew of projects, papers, and presentations for school. I did pull out the Christmas boxes the Sunday after Thanksgiving and put most of our decorations up, but we had to wait until this past Friday to get a tree. Chuck and Clyde picked it out together while I finished a paper and we decorated it Saturday morning. There's something about having the tree up and well-lit that makes life feel much more Christmas-y and I love it! Chuck took the weekend off and we were able to go to our ward's Christmas party at church. The activities committee did a great job re-creating Bethlehem and it was fun to don bathrobes (Chuck and Clyde), sheets (me) and pillowcases (all of us) to fit in with the scenery. The Elder's Quorum was in charge of one of the food-serving booths so Chuck got to magnify his calling as 1st Counselor and dole out grapes.
Clyde happily stayed in his getup for most of the evening - until about thirty seconds before we went to take this picture (of course). Thanks again, Jared, for being our volunteer photographer!
Clyde happily stayed in his getup for most of the evening - until about thirty seconds before we went to take this picture (of course). Thanks again, Jared, for being our volunteer photographer!
An earlier shot of Clyde helping Daddy with the fruit
After dinner there was a really nice program with an acted out reading from the second chapter of Luke. Hearing that account of Jesus Christ's birth never gets old, and obviously helped up the Christmas spirit around our house as well :)
It's been so nice to have Chuck home for a week, and after an all-day training followed by his regular shift tomorrow, we get him for another whole week - yay! We decided today that we should just win the lottery since it's so fun to both be stay-at-home parents (Alas, we don't play the lottery, and I think that's actually one of their slogans: You can't win if you don't play). We'll just have to be thankful for the semester almost being over and vacation days!
4 comments:
Fun pictures! Glad to hear the craziness of work and your semester is drawing to a close! We'll have to do a game night sometime over the break. Not to mention some scrapbooking. ;)
Great photographer.
I think that shepherd boy has a real acting future!
Merry Christmas!
Chuck is such a trooper! I don't think Creed would ever dress up...lol. Merry Christmas in 2008!! Yay!
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