Ah, Christmas.
Christmas Eve is our big celebration day, and we started it off with a trip to Cleveland's West Side Market for lunch....and we also may have picked up a few desserts along the way....We met my aunt and uncle and cousins there, and by a serendipitous chance, also ran into my good friend Jacquelyn and her family. That was ridiculously awesome, considering how big the Market is, and how many people were there, but you know, great minds think alike, right Jacq?!
We returned home to prepare a Mexican feast for dinner. For most of our lives, we've been Christmas ham people, but Robyn, being a southern desert girl, has been of the Mexican food persuasion, so at her suggestion we cobbled together a delicious, south-of-the-border celebration.
After eating a wholesome amount of assorted cakes, the time for our Christmas pageant had finally arrived! Everyone gathered this and that, and tied scarves here and wrapped fabric there, and voila! Costumes!
The roles were as follows:
Mama- narrator
Dad- innkeeper
Shane- sheep, donkey
Robyn- shepherd
Jeff- wise man
Rachel- angel
Sawyer- Joseph, wise man
Elouise- Mary
Fitting, no? We all thought it was pretty perfect, and absolutely hilarious, and completely wonderful. Maybe the only Christmas moment that topped it was the next morning as we all waited at the top of the stairs with baited breath, Sawyer cheered and excitedly snatched up Shane and Robyn's hands and directed everyone else to do the same. So in one great, big long chain, we fumbled down the stairs.
When Sawyer saw his gifts he covered his mouth and jumped up and down and tore through presents one at a time, playing with each before moving on to the next.
Lula was quite content to open three gifts, play with them, then left the rest for me as she made her way to the brunch table.
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