Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas!!

Our little Christmas traditions are making the holidays a very special time for our family.
Christmas Eve we decorated cookies for Santa.



We sprinkled reindeer food on the front lawn.

Milk and cookies set out for Santa!
Christmas Morning starts with reading scriptures.
The Christmas haul.


Letter from Santa
Emi got a couple more ponies for Christmas and promptly rushed off to find her other ponies to make introductions.
Gavin and his "Claw" Light Saber.
Emilia with her princesses.
Gavin with his remote control robot.
Merry Christmas to all!!

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Christmas In Zarahemla

This year our ward had a different idea for the church Christmas party.
There was a presentation acted out portraying prophets from the Book of Mormon and their prophecy's and experiences with the birth of Christ.
Nephi's Vision
And the Lord said unto me: "Behold, the virgin whom thou seest is the mother of the Son of God, after the manner of the flesh."
"And it came to pass that I beheld that she was carried away in the spirit for the space of a time the angel spake unto me, saying: Look!"
"And I looked and beheld the virgin again, bearing a child in her arms. And the angel said unto me: Behold the Lamb of God, yea, even the Son of the Eternal Father."
1 Nephi 11: 18-21
We believe that the birth of Jesus Christ was foretold by the ancient prophets in the American continents and that the signs of his birth were seen there.
We believe that there were followers who had faith in the words of the prophets and awaited the arrival of their Savior.
We've recently been called to the activities committee and helped with the setup for the event. Ammon made one fierce warrior.
I got to make the costumes for the event and had a lot of fun with the assignment.
(Thanks to Chrissy who actually did most of the sewing!!)



Gavin loved running around as a little warrior.
The spear was a big hit amoungst his friends.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Merry Christmas

Dear Santa,
Gavin & Emilia have been especially good this year. They are kind to each other, kind to their parents and kind to their friends. This year Gavin would like a Light Saber for Christmas and Emilia would like a Care Bear.
Thank you,
The Henrikson Family
Pictures with Santa don't always go as planned and when I say I take 100 pictures for every good one you see I'm not exaggerating.




Merry Christmas!