Happy Birthday, Jesus!

I had an idea to have a birthday party for Jesus. I was thinking we'd do it on Christmas Eve. Just our family of four. You know, start a new tradition.

And any tradition that involves cake is likely to be a good one.

Then I started thinking about how friends come to birthday parties. Even my 3 1/2-year-old girl knows that.

So we had a birthday party last night for Jesus with friends.

Six adults.

Seven kids.

One delicious cake.

One Christmas story.

A new tradition born.

Greg read the Christmas story.
Courtney made a delicious cake.
There was typical party noise.

And there were gifts.
For people we care about.
From the people who love us.
All because Jesus is love.
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There are some more pictures here, if you're interested.