Ward Christmas Party

This year our ward activities committee did another awesome job with the Christmas Party. They had a sort of "Night at Bethlehem" theme to it, and had the gym organized and decorated into a street market. We were all supposed to dress in sheets and towels and bathrobes to fit the part, and bring our families to be taxed.

Cute little shepherd Matthew

We brought baskets, and went around the market "buying" the food we would eat for our dinner and then found a place in the middle to sit and eat it. It was really great.

After dinner they read the nativity story from the scriptures...and Andy and I were asked to play Mary and Joseph. (hmm...they said it was because I was already dressed for the part...could they be referring to my protruding tummy? Oh, and it is a known fact in the t.v. world that the camera adds about 10 pounds...well...sheets and head covers and shawls add about 40 at least! It felt good to take all that stuff off!). Anyway, Taylor and Brooklynn also came onto the stage with us as shepherds...and Matthew was a fuzzy little lamb that was so wiggly that at one point Joseph had him dangling by his back feet. Brooklynn let us use her baby doll for baby Jesus, and Rachey was too shy and just decided to stay sitting with her friends.

They also had the primary room set up with fun crafts for the kids to work on, and with cookies to frost. Brooklynn and Matthew especially enjoyed the cookie part.

Then Santa showed up! So of course the kids had to wait in line to go see him! Matthew was okay for the first few seconds...but then he decided that Santa was a very scary man!

It was a fun night for all of us, we really enjoyed the creativity that went into it and think we have an AWESOME activities committee!