Christmas 2017

We had a nice dinner and talent show at Grady and Bryn's on Christmas Eve eve. (too bad I didn't get any video of the talent show.) Those who did not participate in the talent show participated in the nativity. Grade instructed me to video the nativity. 

The next kids in line to go on missions are the narrators. That would be Jeremy (Grade) and Lauren (Court) .

Poor Rachel did not feel well the whole week leading up to Christmas. Fever, weak, tired. Poor thing. 

Christmas eve, we had our Bethlehem dinner and watched Mr. Kruger's Christmas. We opened sibling gifts and then it was time to take down the service chain we'd been building all year. 

Sydney and Camille wrapped the chain of service around our Christmas tree as a gift for Jesus. And then they struck this awkward pose for the picture. :)

Christmas morning!

Wheadon Family Farm Nativity

We were invited to attend a live nativity at the Wheadon Family Farm. You can see the nativity from Redwood road, out in their fields.And then tune to a specific radio station and you can listen to the nativity. 

But on this night, they invited us and others over for a scone and chili dinner. Then we walked into the field and sat on hay bales. They handed out a script to everyone and began the story of the birth of baby Jesus, interspersed with quotes and Christmas songs we all sang together. 

It was really a beautiful experience, from beginning to end.  

This was Hash about half way through. He zonked out. 

Sterling wasn't able to be there. He was in Washington D.C. on work. But there were a couple of other farm bureau people there, including our favorite, Susan!
Ken Ivory, a Utah legislator, was also there. He and Sterling have a strong mutual admiration for each other. The kids thought I was saying something like K'Nivery instead of Ken Ivory. We joked about it for a long time afterwards and told Sterling all about it on the phone when he called that night to say good night.