We went to Christmas Eve service at the edge again this year. We haven't been to church in a while do to Eric's work schedule, and our need for some time off. We had gone back last week just to get the boys introduced to everyone again, and since the church has moved since we were there last, any new rules they would need to know. Last week Ryan did a sermon about King Harrod. For Christmas Eve's service, he chose to do a part II to last week's service and again spoke about King Herrod. Apparently king Herrod was a pretty evil man. Ryan said it was said "it was better to be one of his pigs than his son" because if he felt you were a threat to him, he had you killed. And so on and so forth. It seemed like an odd choice to me to do a 2 part sermon titled "The Dark side of Christmas" on Christmas eve, especially since all children ages 5 and up were in with the adults. This is only the second or third time Aragorn had been in the sermon with us, and i was a little disappointed on the subject. That aside, the service was great with Gena and the band rocking the house. To close the evening, we did a candle light service when they sang "O Holy night"
When we came home Brianna was already here and had dinner ready (let me tell you how AWESOME that was!!) we hung out for a little while and played with the cool gift the boys got from our neighbor friends. After we put out some gingerbread doughnuts and milk for Santa we went outside and tossed our Santa mix oats for the reindeer and confetti so santa can see the driveway. After that the boys went to bed and we enjoyed a quet evening.....
