Bruehls Rule: Christmas Part 1

Christmas is such a blessed time to celebrate Christ's birth with the family. Every year we go to Oklahoma, and this year was no exception. We did lots of Just Dance Disney - everyone danced (everyone including Jake's mom, Christie's brother, Christie's dad, the list goes on). It was so so cold. When Mike, Christie and Jake and I had our date night it was on 19 degrees! Burr! Well, we spent our night playing Just Dance - as Kimberlyn got Just Dance 4 for Christmas (which had some fun adult songs to dance to on it)- and by the third song we were getting into our shorts and tank tops! Ha! I highly recommend Just Dance. It is so much fun and you don't even feel like you are exercising. Well, maybe a little, but it is a fun exhaustion. :)

We spent Christmas Eve with Christie's family. We attended and Episcopalian service at a very small church. They had a Children's Pageant. This was also a service everyone was welcome at the altar to partake in communion. They gave us a piece of bread to dip into one cup of wine. I dipped my bread in the wine while Blake watched. He did not realized I used the bread so when the cup came to him, he stuck his fingers in the wine! Oops. Oh well. Kimberlyn took communion as well. This is a first for both of them as we do not have them partake normally because they have not been baptized, nor can truly grasp the meaning quite yet. But I think it is special to do it once a year to get the idea and to commune with other fellow believers. Kimberlyn went back to her seat and asked if she was baptized now. Ha!

Below are a couple of pictures taken by my sweet friend Rachel. The rest depict our time with Jake's mom (aka GMa) and Papa Johnny.