Miri-ism #37

While eating ice cream for our Family Home Evening treat.

Miri: (Holds her forehead in her hand.) Aaa! Aaa!
Seth: Ice cream headache?
Miri: No, brain freeze.

Miri-ism #36

While looking at the nativities on display at the Museum of Idaho during Christmas break.

Miri: Look! This one has real Frankenstein, gold and myrrh!

Christmas

Prepare to be inundated.

Our Christmas festivities included gingerbread house creations.

Seth and Analee with their gingerbread house.

Rebekah and Winnie with their destroyed house. It kept falling apart, so Bekah finished the job and put the dinosaur toy there as a joke.

Miriam (and her two missing teeth) and Andrea with their gingerbread house.

Our Christmas festivities included a trip to the Museum of Idaho's free Christmas display.

Winnie looking at Santa riding a chicken. (?!)

Miriam and her fox pulling funny faces in the Children's Discovery Room.

Rebekah taking care of a baby.

Analee showing how she was able to identify this puppet as a beaver.

Miriam serving dinner to Seth and Winnie in the log cabin.

Our Christmas festivities included a sleigh ride through a neighbor's field.

The noble steeds that pulled the sleigh.

Miriam playing with the barn cats while waiting for the rest of our party.

Winnie collecting sticks for the dog.

Blake Ford letting Rebekah take the reins.

Bennet, Analee, Andrea, Miriam and Seth on the sleigh. (Grandma Scott, Grandpa Scott, Aunt McKall, Oakley, Rebekah and Winnie were also riding.)

Our Christmas festivities included a Hendricks family party.

Miriam and Emma sporting the googly eyes that were supplied for the reindeer craft.

Kids, grandkids and great-grandkids listening to Grandpa Hendricks read "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."

Rebekah telling Austin (as Joseph) that there is no room in her inn.

Winnie as a shepherdess and Kailey as a sheep during the live nativity. 

Analee the wise woman.

Miriam and the other two angels participating in a group hug.

Our Christmas festivities included a Scott family party.

Bennet, Winnie, Grandma Scott, Rebekah, Analee and Miriam around the spinning German nativity.

Rebekah opening her Christmas Eve jammies from Grandma and Grandpa Scott. 

Analee checking out her jammies.

Grandma Scott helping Winnie put on her new jammies. 

Miriam giving Grandma a thank you hug.

Seth showing off his innovative way of bringing all the girls' clothes home.

Grandpa Scott taking a picture of all the kids in their jammies.

Our Christmas festivities also included (not pictured) a Grover party with presents from grandparents, a sledding party with the Papworth and Wilson cousins and (of course) Christmas morning with presents under the tree.

To see more fun Christmas pictures, start here.