It's Christmas.....

A Rainwater Tradition: placing baby Jesus in the manger on Christmas Eve, after reading from the book of Luke

 I LOVE Christmas!!  I love everything about it.  On Christmas Eve we started by visiting Seth's side of the family.  A bowl of warm taco soup (five bean soup I think) with cherry cobbler and ice cream and  exchanged gifts completed the afternoon.

two of our six nieces

We then went to my side of the family, for a Christmas dinner of ham, green bean casserole, cheesy potatoes, salad and lots and lots of desserts.  A fun tradition we always have Christmas poppers, these things you pull apart and a small gift flies out.

Yes, the necklace says "Carpe Diem," isn't that cool?

My soon to be sister in all and I getting "Bare Minerals" (love that make-up) thanks Mom!

Seth and his Zalman 2000 (it's some sort of laptop cooler thing, I don't know, but it makes him happy!) 

To finish the evening, we finished with our own Christmas tradition, reading the Christmas story from the book of Luke and placing baby Jesus in the manger of our nativity set.  This morning I made our annual hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls breakfast.


We hope that everyone had a joyous Christmas and that the celebration of the birth of our Christ was a wonderful as ours!
Love,
Seth and Jamie