Stealing the Show - Not in a Good Way

Despite our reputation of making a scene at all church functions (darcy yelling for milk throughout her baptism, Beckett squealing during the sermon on a regular basis, etc.), our church continues to ask us to participate in things (probably because we only have about 200 members and most of them are older than 60). This Christmas season was a biggie - the girls were sheep in the Christmas pageant AND our family got to light the Advent candle on Christmas Eve.

The Advent Candle went ok - Lance did a reading and I managed an open flame in one hand and a baby in the other with no mishaps. We were all up at the altar, Darcy saw me lighting the candle and loudly announced that it was time to sing Happy Birthday, but other than that, we were good. The worst part was that we had to sit in the front row for the remainder of the service. I'm sure they loved it when we started passing out rattles, coloring books, crayons and sippy cups and letting Beckett chew on the candles for the candle-lit "Silent Night".

The Christmas pageant was another story. Here are Gwen, Darcy and their cousin Cooper, sheeps all. In the first picture Gwen is subtly trying to push Cooper off of his carpet square while looking innocent and Cooper is not happy about it. You can also see Darcy, holding a stuffed rooster and coloring on the church bulletin. Keep in mind, this is all going on in the background of the manger where Baby Jesus is being born.


This second picture is Gwen, crying on stage, and reaching for me/crawling towards me after I mouth the words "YOU ARE IN BIG TROUBLE". When the pageant finally ended, I had to escort my crying (bleating) sheep out of the church and give her a lecture. Notice that Darcy has disappeared from the scene. She didn't cause a stir, but she literally just decided she was done and just slid herself off of the stage, across the floor and back to her Daddy. It was too funny!