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Christmas Eve/Prosperity

Christmas Eve Dinner

Got to LOVE the cousins
The most interesting thing just happened.  Lately I wake up at about 3:30 in the morning.  This is nothing new for me.  So instead of trying to fall back asleep (which I don't usually do until about 6:00) I decided to get up and read my scriptures.  As I usually do I checked my email and found that my neighbor had responded to something I had sent her.  So I wrote back and immediately she responded.  "What was she doing up at 3:30 in the morning?"  Well her son was having leg cramps and she was out of medicine.  I felt so blessed that I could run medicine over to her so that they could both get some sleep.  How nice to do service first think in the morning.

Silly Wise man (He was quite insistent that he wanted to be a wise man.
I didn't even know he knew what that was.)
We had a great Christmas Eve.  It is so fun to have family around and to spend time with them.  Annelise also joined our celebration.  It was great!!  We had a wonderful traditional turkey dinner and then moved on to the nativity production.  My nephew Ammon was director and had enlisted the help of the missionaries.  They played Samuel the Lamanite, Wise men, and Shepherds.

Michael went from wanting to be a Shepard to a wise man to nothing and finally settling on wise man.

Samantha is our Angel
The weather was so hot.  It was 72 degrees outside and inside with all the cooking that had been going on we were roasting.  We saw a Facebook post from our cousins in Fayetville showing their Traditional Christmas dinner being replaced with hamburgers and hot dogs.  I secretly envied their dinner as it would not have heated up the house.  (The next day we discovered that someone had turned the heater on to 80 degrees.  No wonder it was so hot.

John Derek aka King Herod
After yummy homemade eggnog we pilled in the car, put out our stockings, opened our footed fleece pajamas from Granma and Granpa Christensen, turned on the air conditioning, and went down for a long winter's nap.

Ether 10:28 


"28  And never could be a people more blessed than were they, and more prospered by the hand of the Lord. And they were in a land that was choice above all lands, for the Lord had spoken it."
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    • Our Mary and Joseph
  • I think this describes us in America. But I know that as our country turns away from the Lord we will diminish in our prosperity. I am also sure that these people still had trials and problems but they were like us and didn't have to worry about survival.





Maddie is a Shepard

Elizabeth Our other wise man.

Kisses

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