christmas in collages

merry christmas!!!
we have been busy bees and lazy bees - just enjoying our time together this christmas.
hope you like our christmas in collage form (it would've added years to my life to upload each of these pix individually - thank you, picasa!)
anyhoo, on with the show!
here we are, enjoying the christmas lights and giant nativity at opryland:

and here's a miscellaneous collage - kalei's informal christmas piano recital, cookies for santa, the kids on our trip to deliver goodies to friends and neighbors, our gingerbread village, and our ornament addition this year: birdhouses (going with the idea that we stayed 'home' this year):

christmas eve, we upheld the navalta tradition of acting out the nativity story. we had a thoughtful mary, a reverent wise man, and a very curious and enthusiastic shepherd:

christmas morning! ever since we moved to kentucky, we have kept the tree gift-less until christmas morning - it helps keep little fingers from 'accidentally' opening gifts early and also adds a little 'ka-pow!!' to these guys' anticipation. here they are anticipating (kawelo's a little groggy - we had to actually wake him up - next year, he'll lead the charge, i'm sure):

followed with their delight of actually finding something under the tree!

(yes!! santa forgave our last-minute naughtiness!)
we hope you all had a wonderful and magical christmas!

p.s. if you were counting, i used 'christmas' 10 times - 11 if you include this sentence - yay, me!