Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!
Love,
Andrew, Tricia, and Myla (4 months)

Thai Christmas in Denton

We couldn't resist another Thai Christmas, so we invited some Thai friends over to our house to celebrate Christmas! It was great... so fun to be with Thais and remember that we really did live in Thailand.

The first group picture (some came late) before I hacked in to the turkey. Ellen (to the left of Tricia) is a student at UNT in Denton and just loves Thais. She has a great relationship with a group of them and that's why we were able to invite them over for Christmas dinner. David (front right) was on our Stint team in Thailand and he was in town for the party.

We sat in our living room to eat dinner and then had our White Elephant gift exchange.

See the chicken on the left? When you press it's wing, it walked around and lit up and sang a song. It was the most coveted gift! It got stolen until it was "dead." Who would have thought?

So sad to let her chicken go!

Our last activity was reading a compilation of the Christmas story from Matthew and Luke. We got people to be actors to act out the story as we read it. It was a really funny way for them to hear the Christmas story, but we got to explain why it's so special to us at the end.

Plaa (on the couch) was Mary. She was not into it at the beginning. Kysang (standing) is the angel, telling Mary she is going to have a baby.

"Elizabeth" is holding the chicken as John in her womb. You should have seen her act out when it was actually birthed. Hilarious!

Narm (standing) is a shepherd. She's holding a cane of M&M's as her shepherd's staff. Sitting on the couch is Pat playing Joseph.

May is a wiseman pointing at Mary on the couch holding baby Jesus (the chicken) wrapped in swaddling cloths (Plaa's scarf).

At the end of the night, we took a picture of everyone with their gifts. So fun!

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