The Night Before Christmas...

Our Christmas Eve was a little different than in the past. We went to the Christmas Eve service at church, but missed seeing all of the sweet faces of so many friends. However, it was a good service and I look forward to it again next year.  We also missed out on our annual dinner with friends, so we went out instead (not a bad compromise since I didn't have to cook!).  We even let Pierce open his big gift from us, which we've never done before...but since we leave on Christmas day for several days, we wanted him to have a little extra time to enjoy it.

So VERY excited about his game system!  Too bad it had to download the games and he didn't really get to play it that night.  Oops.

He put the reindeer food out, cookies for Santa, told Elfie good bye, and we all read the Christmas story together before bed. 

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.  And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."  Isaiah 9:6