Christmas Eve

For Christmas this year, Julia came home from her semester at BYU-Idaho. Erika and Tyler were here--they have been living with us, and Andrea.  Our centerpiece were gingerbread houses we made earlier.  After dinner we had the traditional Danish rice pudding.  The person getting the almond gets not a marzipan (almond paste) pig, but at our house an almond chocolate bar.  Andrea was slipped the almond this year--her first win.
Then we read the Christmas story, as is our tradition, and shared our favorite parts of the history of Jesus' birth.  Our world would not have been the same without Him!