Merry Christmas!

Well, we certainly had a wonderful celebration of the birth of the Savior this year in Central Asia! The festivities started out Christmas Eve. We went out to eat at Cafe H* (the only western style restaurant in town) and enjoyed pizza, Dr. Pepper and coffee before several families of "like-minded" ex-pats came to sing Christmas carols. The children sang some songs for us as well and read their version of the Christmas story. They were adorable dressed as angels and wise men. Here is a picture of me and Benjamin enjoying some pizza (before Benjamin got really messy!).

After that, we came home and watched White Christmas (a tradition of mine growing up) and put together our "stockings" which in reality were assorted baskets; you can't find stockings here. Such fun!



The next morning we got up, read from the Book an account from John who said that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us bringing light to all men. We sang praises and then opened our "stockings". Benjamin really enjoyed "helping" us with our stockings!


After stockings, we headed to the kitchen and enjoyed a yummy breakfast of biscuits and sausage gravy (and by sausage, I mean a homemade beef version- which didn't turn out too bad!). Then, back to the living room for presents!