Hi everyone! I have been meaning to post this for a while and kept putting it off. As you may have noticed, I did not post one single Christmas picture! Not one! Sorry! So I have now compiled our Christmas pictures in chronological order (for your convenience). It began the first weekend in December, when we decorated (Unusual for us, our decorations are usually up the day after Thanksgiving).
Christmas is about Christ's birth and incarnation. We try to make Christmas all about Him, both in the way we decorate and celebrate, so we try to cut back on our decorations. Now, if you had walked into our house at Christmas you would have never known that we had cut back, but we did. Another thing that we do is open gifts throughout December, this prevents Christmas Day from becoming all about what we got. On Christmas morning, we usually get our "big" gift and open our stockings. The first gift that we opened was bed sheets! Yeah! :)
Here are some other pictures of what we got:
Next on our Christmas agenda, mom and dad surprised us by taking us to the Mordecai House downtown. The house was decorated through the years, starting in the early 1800's and ending in the 1940's. The different time periods decorated in the house represented each of the generations of Mordecai's that lived here. It was really pretty and inspiring (At least to me:).
We then arrived at the NC Governor's Mansion.
The next week, I got sick and was still not feeling well when we went to see a Christmas Carol by Theater in the Park. IT WAS AMAZING! I had never been, and Ira David Wood III did an amazing job playing Scrooge. So, we had a wonderful evening watching the play and observing Christmas lights from the warmth and safety of our car while eating hot Krispy Kreme doughnuts from the downtown Raleigh store.
Normally, my parents open their gifts to each other on Christmas Eve and we come downstairs and see our gifts sitting out in the living room on Christmas morning. This year, Christmas was on a Sunday. We really wanted to celebrate Jesus' birth and keep the Sabbath, so mom and dad opened their gifts on Christmas Eve Eve and we came down on Christmas Eve.
Later in the day on Christmas Eve, my grandparents and uncle came to visit.
The next day was Christmas. We went to church and then left to visit my other grandparents in the mountains. It snowed two days later, so that made it extra fun!
So there you have it! These were all pictures that I originally planned to post but never got around to it! Have a great weekend!
~Lenyer
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