Christmas Eve

I took these pics after we got home from our Christmas Eve service. I don't have pictures yet from the program, but hopefully Tricia will blog them! The program was cute...Andrew did a great job remembering his two shepherd lines, and Jacob was a very cooperative Joseph!
My parents and two of my sisters came for the program, and intended to come down to our house for a late dinner. Unfortunately, the weather simply didn't cooperate...it was a horrible blizzard! We were not even halfway to the church when Mark seriously began questioning if we shouldn't turn around and stay home...I haven't seen it snow that hard and fast for a long time! MP ended up getting about 20" of snow that night, and we got at least that much (on top of the foot we had gotten on Saturday...no danger of it not being a white Christmas)!
It was almost comical...for some reason our regular plow guy for the church hadn't been able to plow out the parking lot, so all the guys were out in the parking lot helping to shovel, pulling in and out with a 4-wheel drive truck to flatten the snow, and then carry kids in as they arrived, and occasionally helping push cars in that hadn't been able to keep up enough speed getting up the slope of the parking lot!
But, the weather couldn't have deterred that many, as we ended up with about 70 people there. For those of you who have been to our church, you know that it's no small feat getting that many people in the building...and every Christmas we're reminded to pray for the provision of a bigger building!
So it was just us at home for Christmas Eve...had a late dinner, opened a few gifts, and got the kids to bed so we could do the wrapping and stuffing of stockings!