3rd Annual Christmas Eve Party

We have stayed in Boston the last 3 years during Christmas. We have really enjoyed starting our own traditions and getting together with friends while family is so far away during the holidays. One of our favorite things we do during the holidays is host a Christmas Eve Party for those friends we have who also stay in Boston. Each year we have a different crowd, but each year we have a fabulous time.
We always start out with a delicious Italian dinner, including stuffed shells, vegetable lasagna, salad, bread, cheese ball, dessert, and oh soo much more.

Each year we read this Nativity Story, but this year we assigned some of our guest parts, and they all dressed up and did fantastic with their parts.

Above we see Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus with the Wise Man, Woman and Child visiting them.
Below is our Angel, she is a shy little angel, but a cute one nonetheless.

Berkeley had the big role of a sheep this year, he was pretty cute. The shepherds did a great job watching their flock.

Then we sang Christmas sons while Christian played the piano. We had a pretty big crowd this year so it sounded nice. We then had our annual Yankee Swap and ended the night with chatting and getting ready for Santa to visit.

At the end of the night, Berke put on his Sponge Bob Square Pants Santa PJ's from Great Grandma Evans, they were pretty adorable. As you can tell from our family photo, the party wore the little man out!
We had such a great time and are glad we could spend the holiday with our friends.