Apparently, Beniah illness was just a case of food poisoning, so after attending the early service at our church, we headed down to Roseburg. Beniah's Sunday school class had a birthday party for Jesus. He loved his party hat and didn't want to take it off until we were 20 miles north of Roseburg.
I realized during this trip that maps make wonderful toys.
Once we got to my parents' house, we started in on our traditional Christmastime snack food dinner and a movie.
Then we piled into the Kumar's van and went through the Festival of Lights.
Seriously, what is with the creepy light displays?
I have to say, my favorite part of the festival of lights was when Elijah saw some candy cane lights and pretended that my dad was a candy cane and tried to lick him.
The next morning, the boys, my dad and I bundled up and went up to the hills and played in the snow.
Unfortunately, the snow was so icy that it didn't really stick together that well.
Beniah insisted that the little snowman that we made had a face.
It's kind of a weird looking creature, if you ask me.
Beniah found a pile of tires that had snow heaped up on them and began pulling chunks of snow off and making snow tires.
It's a snow beard!
(No he's not actually eating that gross snow.)
Later that night, we went to the Kumar's house to enjoy some soup and cuddles with a cat that doesn't mind a toddler and a preschooler all over him.
Little Janasa girl charmed us all...
...and gave her Uncle Tim a back massage by climbing on his back and jumping off.
Then it was off to the Christmas Eve service
Where they had the children come up on stage to hear the Christmas story.
Then came the candle lighting. The boys loved that part and kept trying to blow out the all ready hard to light candles
