Christmas Eve

Most of the day was pretty dull. Laundry, cleaning up the house, etc. But in the evening, we went over to the Lythgoes' for dinner.

We expected to see Charlie and his family there, but when we arrived we heard they were all home sick! So it was just the 5 of us, Dennis & Marti, and Darrin's aunt Nancy and her college age kids Jennifer & April.
We had a very good dinner and then went downstairs for the annual talent show. (I took pictures, since I don't have any "performable" talents. Face it, you can't exactly calm a laboring woman on a stage.)
Marti and Darrin built a nice fire:

Brynn did a magic trick with a dollar bill.

for a most appreciative audience:

Kyra & Callie played a duet on the piano.

April played and sang for us, too.
We had our annual nativity pageant. This year, the role of Mary went to:

Brynn!
And our handsome Joseph was played by Darrin!

There were shepherds:

Wise guys:

An angel:

And our traditional narrator:

And we even had an audience:

(much smaller because of the many roles in the pageant)
After the cast took its final bow:

We went upstairs and had pie. YUM!

And then we went home, got all the girls settled sleeping together in the basement, and then got started on the work of Christmas Eve! You'll have to tune in tomorrow to see what we were up to.....