we tried

Even though all of us were sick over the weekend before Christmas, I decided we needed to go to Christmas Eve candlelight service. I figured that since all of the fun Christmas festivities I had planned were ruined by 2 weeks of sickness, we had to at least get the Christmas Eve service in. 

We should have just stayed home. I don't know what I was thinking! 

Elias had to get a drink and use the bathroom at least 3 times before we finally said no more. "No" equals breakdown in Elias's world these days. Simon got super hot because they keep our church at like one hundred degrees. The boy hates to be hot. Raelynn couldn't sit still. What can you do? She's 20 months old! So, we were in and out the whole service, and hardly had a chance to reflect on why we were even there - the birth of our Savior! 

We got to the car, and Bryan said, "That was one hour?! I thought it was three!". Yes, we should have stayed home in our pj's and read the Christmas story aloud. 

My next mistake was insisting on taking pictures of all these tired, sick kids. Ah well, you win some, you lose some. The progression of these pictures is just too funny not to share. 

This one is not too bad....

Simon didn't want to be apart of this anymore....

I realized we couldn't even see Raelynn's dress, 

so I passed Simon off to Elias.

As you can see, she's pretty ticked....

Isaiah tried helping out, and made things worse...

Elias is, once again, in his own world. 

So happy to be holding Simon.

Even though Simon was furious.