12/2/17...Went out to eat with Melissa, Bruce and Kids, Went to Living Nativity

Dinner at Tony's with Melissa, Hailey, Bruce, Max, Bill, Jack and Evan

Eli, Adam, me, Isaac, Peyton, Rody, Jacob, Kimmy Jared, and Bill

Isaac

Adam

In the church with Jacob, Eli, Kimmy and Jared

Rody, Peyton, Isaac and Vikki

Vikki and her momma who loves her

Oh no, the Roman soldiers came into the church

We have been going for over 13 years and this is the first time I have seen the camel lying down

Adam, Louie and Eli knocking on the Innkeeper's door with Papa looking on.  

The Innkeeper said there is not room in the Inn.  He sent us around the corner to a stable

Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus....so moving

Cookies, coffee, cocoa, and orange drink afterwards.  Bill, Vikki, Peyton, Isaac, Rody, Eli, Adam, Kimmy, Jared and Jacob

Bill and I

Family picture (missing Bruce, Melissa and kids as the kids are in the Boars Head Festival)

 We slept in.  I went to the bank and got some money out.  Charlie picked Bill up and they went out for coffee.  When Bill got home we took off the all the screens of the house, and I washed windows and he blew the leaves off the deck and into the woods.  There were lots of them too.  The windows look great.  I washed with outside window sills too.  We got all the pieces of the outside nativity out, but we need to get a thing to plug them into.  We met Bruce and Melissa at Tony's and had a fulfilled dinner.  We gave them an envelope afterward.  Max and I, and Melissa and I played the dot game and had fun. We went to Vikki and Rody's after that and gave them an envelope.  Went to the Living Nativity.  We got there 20 minutes before it started but it was so full, we had to park by the road instead of in the parking lot.  There was a line out the door.  We got almost to the door when Vikki and family came.  We let them ahead of us.  We saw Amy, Dennis and the kids go by.  We let lots of people go by us while we waited for Kimmy and family to get there.  We just asked a person to go ahead when she told us there were 20 of them.  We saw a bus come in so figured that was a bus load.  Kimmy and family got there right then so we just went in and sat down.  They had Christmas movies playing while we waited.  Wes called and they were outside.  They had to wait outside 45 minutes.  We didn't have to wait too long and we went into the church.  It was fun singing Christmas songs with Adam and his bear Louie.  We didn't get to see the angel on the ceiling this year.  They added move on the walk to Bethlehem.  They all did an excellent job.  Eli was handed the money so it wouldn't get stolen.  He gave it to Adam a little while later.  Adam and Louie kept it safe.  We had to pay it to the Roman soldiers.  This is so moving and I love when we end up at the Stable with Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus.  Nice that they have live donkeys and cows there too.  Our shepherd prayed with us afterwards and then we went in for refreshments.  Adam and Eli rode to our house with us and Kimmy, Jared and Jacob stopped at Kohl's to pick up pants for Jacob.  They came to our house afterwards and we gave them an envelope.  We sure love our family and thank God for them.  What blessings they are!