With the feast of the Baptism of Jesus yesterday, Christmas has come to a close. I love that Christmas in the Church is not just one day but a full season of celebration. The birth of the savior certainly deserves more than 24 hours of feasting. As most of the world takes down their trees and gets back to "normal life", we Catholics have just begun our celebration. We wait (Advent) for the feasting to begin on December 25th and then we party for nineteen days (bring on the desserts)! Here is a little glimpse of the Christmas fun we had and the traditions started by the Mattson's this year for our little girl's first Christmas (outside the womb ;)
Feast of Saint Nicholas
First trip to meet Saint Nicholas
Mary's first Christmas Tree
Christmas Light on Balboa Island,
Snoopy House in Costa Mesa
Each year we have an Advent party with friends and the kids put on a Nativity play. The two little Mary's were sheep this year!
Christmas Eve was spent with the Gibson's and December 26th with the Mattson's
Eric had to work on Christmas Day so we had Christmas at the fire station.
We got Disneyland passes for Christmas and went on the last day they had their Christmas decorations up.
We hope you all had a VERY merry Christmas!
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