So here we are getting ready for the annual Christmas Nativity. And Kherrington decided to take over the stool (meant for Mary and the Baby Jesus), with her tablet and pencil. She can spend hours with a pen or pencil with some paper. And you can see she didn't really even move!!
See her pink shirt behind Mary(Hailey). I guess she really wants to get in on the nativity sooner than later.
We then got to do our gift exchange and spent a great day eating, playing games, and visiting with everyone.
So we had Christmas morning with my family, and we were so excited to see Kherrington get into Christmas this year. It took a little while for her to realize what the opening presents thing was all about. But soon we couldn't keep her out of the gifts and she even tried to unwrap my brother's birthday gifts the following day when Grandma had just wrapped them. OOPS!
So Grandma and Grandpa Joos got Kherrington a cute pan set that had utensils and also some little tupperware bowls and silverware. Way cute. So to completment these we got her the plastic food to go with it.
Also my mom found a table at the DI and Chad refinished it. Here you can see the top. I wish I had got a picture of it before so you could see the awesome job he did.
Just enjoying the box that Grandma's clock came in.
I think I'm ready for a nap....
I love my new chap stick and eating on my new table is the best.
So the table was originally a oak colored top with a bright red legs and base. It took Chad several 5-6 coats to cover that red and then restained it a nice walnut color!! I love it. Then he got it nice and shiny with some polyurethane!! It's going to be a great piece of furniture for years to come. Not only the table but Grandma found some new chairs to go with it too. Just have to refinish those...Poor Chad.
So we went and had a fabulous time at my sister-in-laws, JaNae, for Christmas Eve. I was asked to do a soup (so we picked homemade chicken noodle) and I so badly wanted the Christensen side to try the banana pudding salad/dessert. I think it's a dessert, but the Wrigley side that I got the recipe from call it a salad. But it's awesome regardless of what it is.
We enjoyed soup and bread and dessert along with great games. We did some bible trivia, which I found I am really bad at. I need to study more!! And we loved the games that Katie brought. Win it in a minute. You got to love the video of Chad below. He had to shake all the jingle bells out of the box tied to his butt in less than a minute. So fun!!
I did one where there were 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 jingle bells in small boxes and had to put them in order by shaking them to figure out which at the least to the most. She also had a candycane hooked to a pencil with a string so the crook was down. You had to hold the pencil in your teeth and then pick up other candy canes that the crooks were hanging off the edge of a stool. Also had one with a fuzzy ball on a string that was tied around your neck and then you put vaseline on your nose and the idea was to swing the ball up and get it to attach to your vaselined nose, without touching it with your hands. So much fun. Katie did great with the entertainment value with that game.
Then we got to sing and do a great Christmas devotional. It finally felt like Christmas to me. Wonderful job JaNae and a great way to spend a little time with our 2 missionaries on their way out in the field. Chase and Shandarae's last Christmas at home before the leave on Wednesay the 29th of December for Czech Republic and GA Atlanta North missions. On Sunday we got to listen to them speak in church and have a fabulous dinner at the Junior High, where Chad won the lightning game!! What a great day too!
