Christmas Eve -

We had a blast just hanging out as a family this holiday season. Our Christmas Eve started with some epic family lego building

 We attempted to build a lego tower all the way to the ceiling...

 We got pretty darn close too!

 Then, Ben asked if we could make a lego zoo.

Our zoo eventually included:

1 black monkey

2 yellow lions

3 white polar bears

4 white and black penguins

5 red birds

plus a restaurant and ticket counter

and later 1 blue hippo

Ben wore his santa suit all day and worked on his ho, ho ho

Later in the afternoon we had a picnic in the living room, and made a trip to the petstore. Just to see the animals.

For dinner we attempted a Bethlehem-style. We tried to keep it to things Christ could have possibly eaten while on the Earth.

Now I'm not going to say we were totally authentic, but it was a ton of fun! 

We had:

Homemade Italian Bread

Veggies

Fruit- including dried dates & figs, and pomograntes

Cheeses

Olives, sundried tomatoes, and artichokes

Humus

Honey

and lil Smokies (not so authentic :)

The kids had so much fun dressing up for our ward Christmas party that they wanted to do it again. btw this is Will's "I'm so hungry why are you taking pictures lets just pray so we can eat" face

Ben was so much fun. He would look around the table and see what he hadn't try yet and had to try everything. His favorite was the dates, he was okay with the figs, but didn't like the pomegranates.

Then, it was Santa Clause is coming to town, cookies, new Christmas jammies, and time for bed.

They were asleep in record time, leaving mom and dad to enjoy a quiet evening playing Santa.