The Nativity....

Our ward had one of the sweetest Christmas programs/parties ever! I will forever remember that special night. It started out that our Activity Day leader wanted to have a live nativity at her house in her barn with her girls and invite the parents and then all the different organizations were trying to do something and the holidays get so crazy there just isn't enough time for everything and so we all combined our efforts. I say "we", but I didn't do anything but attend and enjoy the evening. The Activity Day girls made invitations and invited tons of friends that are not members of our church. So we had at least 30-35 friends not of our faith there. It started out at the pavilion at the Hawkes home and the kids could make ginger bread houses with graham crackers. Then they had us all move to the barn. We walked in and it was a beautiful sight. They had hay bales for us all to sit on, there were lights up on all the rafters, and then there was a cardboard scene that looked like a little city across the side on the stalls. The program was so beautiful with touching music by many members of the ward. There was someone on the violin, Matt and a few other men sang in a quartet, there was a trumpeter, and many other awesome voices. Then the Activity Day girls acted out the nativity complete with goats, ponies, chickens, etc. Mary and Joseph slowly came in and knocked at each of the doors and were turned away and finally the last door the inn keeper led them to a stable. When they opened the huge back doors to the barn there was the sweetest stable that they built of wood. In came the shepherds, which were about 10 of the girls who each had a goat on a leash. How cute. And the wise men came in with a pony. Such a spiritual, sweet night. I am so grateful for my Savior that came in the most humble of circumstances, and yet was and is more powerful than us all. Heavenly Father must really love and care for us to send his Only Begotten Son! Merry Christmas!


I of course forgot my camera and had to steal these pictures from my friend Amy's blog! Thanks Amy! :)