Highlights of Christmas Eve

A Christmas Angel

Grandpa Jack was loving the noise and chaos.

I thought the above picture was pretty cool. Besides, who knew that Joseph was such a techie.

Mary, Jesus, and wiseman Cowen.

Mary has some stylin' pants. Those frog pants were originally Will's (Wyatt's best bud in NoDak). Will gave them to Wyatt. The day I had Miriam, my water broke while I was at my parent's house. Amy was there with her kids, including baby Garrett who was 11 days old. Wyatt was working that summer in NoDak, so to bug him, all of us (Amy, me, Lindsay, and I think one other sister) took one item of clothing from his room and put it on, then took a picture to mail to him. Hilarious fun, bugging Wyatt. I took the frog pants. I didn't return them either, until AFTER Miriam was born and I had recovered well enough to fit into other clothing. When I had Cowen, I begged for the frog pants. When I had Emeline--you guessed it, I stole the frog pants. By that time, Lindsay Ann had worn the frog pants to recover after Hailey and then she wore them to recover from Cassidy. When I dropped off my kids at Lindsay Ann's on my way to the hospital to have Eli, Lindsay Ann handed me the frog pants (Wyatt didn't know until he saw me wearing them), and we both giggled. The pants have history. Maternity history.

Uncle Wyatt helping build pyramids. He really is the pied piper.