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Our Christmas Nativity

A few years back (4 to be exact) The Williams family made a special book for my mom.  We put the Christmas Story according to Luke in a book along with photos of our interpretation.  I just stumbled upon these photos and they put such a smile on my face I thought I'd share.  The kids ages in these photos are:  Alorah (7), Isaiah (4), Alaina (2), Micah (10 months)

1:26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
1:29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

1:30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.

1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

2:1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

2:2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
2:3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
2:4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
2:5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

2:6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger;
because there was no room for them in the inn.

2:8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

2:9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
2:10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
2:11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

2:13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
2:15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
2:16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

I don't know where in the story this photo is supposed to go or if I just snapped it cuz he was cute.

I hope the season doesn't get away from you and that you remember the reason for the season.  Happy Birthday Jesus.

Wow, I won!

One of my favorite digital scrapbook stores is Catscrap not only cuz my FAVORITE designer Creashens is there :) But because I love all the different styles there too.  It's a smallish community and everyone is quick to praise you.  Love that.  They also have really cool challenges that make you scrap outside your box.  One of the recent challenges was to scraplift another scrapbooker.  The scrapbooker they chose is one of my FAVORITE scrapbookers Scarletsierra (sara), she has a very distinct style and her work is simply gorgeous.

Here is her original page:

Here is my scraplift:

Mask from Any Given Day kit by Creashens at catscrap.com

Everything else from Love Story kit by Something Blue Studios available at catscrap.com
 
I won the challenge and a $10 gift certificate for catscrap.  Sooooo cool!