Country Christmas

Last weekend we attended a country Christmas celebration at Bates Nut Farm. We were laughing because it felt like it was something straight from Little House on the Prairie (which we are huge fans of). There were people singing, a living nativity, and a play put on by the Valley Center community theater.

Grace's favorite librarian is the wife of the Luthern church pastor. She is super sweet and we love seeing her when we go to the library. The Lutheran church put on the living nativity, and Katie hooked Grace up with some angel wings. We also got to take pictures with Mary and baby Jesus, which was fun.

Mother and child, and mother and child.

It wasn't the real baby Jesus. My little angel is so cute!

Before we headed to the play, we got Grace some pop corn. She was very happy about it, and we were unable to get her to quit eating it in order to take a picture. At least it didn't go to waste.
Three people from our church were in the play and there was a pretty good group of us that came out to support them and see the production. While we were waiting for the play to start, we walked around the little mercantile with our friends the Hansen's (yes, the spell it the wrong way).
Grace loved the play. It was "Scrooge." It was only an hour and a half and she sat really well and paid attention the whole time. I had to explain some of it to her, but she seemed to get the main plot . There is the Cratchet family. Mr and Mrs. Cratchet both go to our church. They are not married in real life and so Grace was super confused and worried about where Mr. Joel's wife was and why he was acting like Ms. Cheryl was his wife. So maybe a few of the details were lost on her after all.