What we did for Christmas Eve
- Delicious dinner at our favorite Vegas Thai restraunt, Pin Kaow (specifically the Lake Mead/Rainbow location) the service and food are excellent! Favorites include Pineapple Fried Rice (Mr. J), Red Curry Chicken (Mrs. J), Appetizer Beef Satay (all), Sticky Rice (girls), Thai iced tea (me). With Deanna and Tom and Mr. J's newest troop and wife.
- Wonderful Christmas eve service at Grace with singing and a great message about why we celebrate Christmas. We got there 10 minutes late so we sat up in the balcony with Deanna and Tom and another family with little ones. The kids had a lot of fun singing and watching from up high. Favorite songs of the night: Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Breath of Heaven/Mary's Song, O Come All Ye Faithful
- Story and New Jammies: Growing up we always had a tradition of reading The Night Before Christmas (regular and cajun style) and then opening up brand new pajamas. Since we don't really do much Santa at our house (even though the kids know all about him and like to sing santa songs) and we don't have a copy of The Night Before Christmas (although I would love to get a copy of the Cajun one)... we read What God Wants for Christmas which is a book that comes with an interactive kid-friendly nativity scene. There are 7 boxes the kids open and a corresponding poem/story that goes with each one. I highly recommend this to any one with preschool age kids! The kids love it. After that, we opened our new jammies and all went to bed. The kids slept so well.. they slept in until 8:30 (which is unheard of in our house)... and so that was probably the best gift we could have received from them.
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