Christmas Eve 2006 at Justin and Jana's House

This year, we celebrated Christmas eve at Justin and Jana's house. Uncle Doug, Doug Ray and Melissa, Brantly and us arrived at their beautifully decorated home for a yummy turkey dinner at 6:00pm.

Justin finding a way to keep Jaxson out of trouble!


Relaxing after dinner on the couch!
Taylor feeding Uncle Doug some dessert!

After dinner, the kids had a fun "white elephant" gift exchange. They were each so excited about the opened gift that there were no exchanges. While the kids dashed off to play with their new presents, the adults had their own white elephant gift exchange. The most desired gift, and therefore the most traded, was the "IF" book- for the game of love. Everybody loved the prompts. Afterwards, we cranked up the song RAG DOLL (thanks again Jana for the gift) while the kids danced and danced.

The kids with their new gifts!




Jaxson opening his white elephant gift.
Always a darling grin from Austin!





After dinner, white elephant gifts and dessert, we had our more reverant part of the evening. Uncle Doug read the story of the birth of the Christ while the kids acted out the story as best they could. Brendon was Joseph and Madison was Mary. Taylor was a shepherd and Jasmine was an angel. Jessica was a wiseman. Jaxson could not be convinced to take part in the story but added himself as only Jaxson could by hitching a ride on the donkey (Justin) into Bethlehem behind Mary........
















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