Our Church does two Christmas Eve Services...one is a kid led family service. J.D. was asked to lead a prayer for the service. He was nervous but never thought of saying no. John did such a great job of helping him prepare...not a scripted prayer but gave him bigger ideas of how his prayer might go. He helped him walk through the steps of Worship, Thanksgiving, and praying for others...So John Daniel had an outline of sorts...then John told him to let the spirit move and just pray for what came to his mind. John Daniel thanked God for the greatest gift of all...Jesus Christ....that was my favorite part.
Pastor D with all the kids..
On Christmas Eve, John brined his turkey...he promised my dad a smoked turkey for Christmas
A new tradition maybe....got this idea from a friend. I bought Christmas P.J.'s for the kids, popcorn, hot cocoa, and some movies for the kids to open on Christmas Eve....they were so excited! We also played a game that was a "would you rather game" of sorts...it had 25 questions like Would you rather live in a giant gingerbread house or go for a ride on Santa's sleigh...it was cute and got the whole family talking and laughing!
We had fun eating an appetizer type dinner, popping popcorn, and watching movies. It was one of the most relaxing Christmas Eve's I can remember!
Stockings all hung
cookies for Santa
Place mats for breakfast thanks to another Nee Naw craft...egg paint manger scenes
And I barricaded the kid's rooms and hallway with crepe paper!
The presents all ready for some really excited kids!
Emily's stack
J.D.'s stack
Molly's stack
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