The Nativity

Oh how I wish I had pictures to go along with this post.  You'll just have to use your imagination. But stay with me, this is good.

Every year my mom has the grandkids act out the Nativity. We make a party of it. Invite the great grandparents eat yummy food and sometimes after the nativity the big S.C. makes a guest appearance.
This Sunday Parker and I will head down to Alpine to watch all of my nieces and nephews dress up and act out the Nativity as my dad reads from Luke.

I can't wait to share pictures with all of you. This year we have real costumes and a real baby to play baby Jesus! (Thanks Jill for timing the birth of your fourth child so appropriately) But before we go down for what promises to be a spectacular performance I would like to take note of the great things that have happened in Nativities past.

The Beckstead Family Nativity Not Top Ten: 

10. The year Colter wouldn't put down his sword. We took a knight in shining armor, and just called him a Roman guard.

9.   The year Oaklee wore her Snow white costume, and sat directly in front of the manger. Not exactly historically accurate. But she sure is cute.

8. The year the angles fought. It is hard not to push and shove for some solo time in the spot light when you are wearing an over sized white t-shirt and a tinsel halo on your head.

7. The year Grandpa kept reading from the wrong chapter in Luke. Lots of confusion that night.

6. The year the girls demanded to be the Wise Men. We are all for equal rights. But the boys were not going to wear those tinsel halos and be angels. We had several shepherds.

5. The year we tried to have the kids sing a song. Some of those kids have real musical talent. But lets just say we should think twice before handing a group of hyped up kids bells to ring.

4. The year there was lots of crying. Sometimes it is a chain reaction one starts crying and soon they all are. I don't think we finished.

3. The year we used real gold. You know those decorative globes that have real gold flakes in them? Yeah I guess the aren't really that popular. Warner's used to have one though. Before it was dropped and broken in the middle of the Nativity.

2. The year Colter wouldn't be a shepherd. He came out in his Iron Man costume, mask and all, stuffed sheep under one arm.

1. The year Luke was Joseph. Every thing was going wrong, except for Joseph. While the other kids were having a hard time, Luke was attentive and serious even reverent. Then as the wise men walked in, he pulled a water gun from his bath robe and opened fire on the older boys.

I can't wait to see what is in store for us this year!