Merry Christmas Eve!!

Everyday this week we've been reading a different prophecy of the Savior's birth while we burned a candle down to a notch that I made on the candle for each day. It was sort of like an advent candle.For Family Home Evening earlier this week, we went through some baby things to give to a family who just had a baby. We delivered them to the family along with a tree and some of our toys the kids had chosen to give up to them as well. On Christmas Eve night after dinner, we decorated Gingerbread cookies. We used melted white chocolate because I think it tastes better than frosting. We also did our annual reinactment of the Nativity. The missionaries were at our house for the evening, so we had an audience. This year we set up a little stage with pvc pipes that had a background and everything. Doesn't Sarah look good?

Here we are decorating Gingerbread houses. We actually did this after lunch. They are tiny wooden bird houses I found at JoAnns for $1.00. They make great ginger bread houses.

And here the kids are leaving cookies for Santa before they go to bed.