Christmas Creche

We went to the Christmas Creche exhibit at our church this year.  It was fun seeing all the nativity scenes.  Here is Anna by some of the scenes.

 There weren't as many as last year, but still a lot to see

Matthew liked the Lego nativity.  There were multiple Lego scenes.  One of them had a Joseph who looked a lot like a pirate.  That one may have been bordering on sacrilegious.  :) There were plenty of beautiful and appropriately reverent ones to make up for it.

 There was a military display room with a military themed Christmas tree.

We miss you Scott!!

 And we made our way to the kids room

They had lots of nativity scenes to touch and play with.Grant loved the scenes.  He found a sheep he liked and then went around the room throwing it. So, I guess that was pretty irreverent also.  We tried to distract him with a little donkey figure...which he also threw.

 And Anna's personal favorite: coloring!

 Matthew didn't care about coloring.  He wanted to work on this puzzle instead.

We headed outside to watch the live nativity and got great seats!  It was a lot less crowded than last year and not nearly as cold, which was nice.  It was probably in the low 50s or high 40s.  We brought blankets (since it was so cold last time) and we were pretty comfortable.

 Mary and Joseph with baby Jesus

Not a great picture.  I know.

They had lots of animals in the live nativity presentation.

Afterwards they let all the kids come up to pet the animals.  Anna petted a sheep and felt like she had done her duty.  Grant and Matthew were a bit more interested in the animals.  This is Matthew and Anna looking at the baby Jesus doll in the manger...and another little kid walked by right as I took it.  I must not have noticed that at the time.  ;)  We had fun at the creche exhibit, but I was glad to get everyone home, out of the cold and in bed.  All this Christmas fun could wear a person out!