Tonight we went to La Salette Shrine to see the lights and also to participate in a prayer service with the school. We gathered at the Nativity scene and had the service. Then we walked around the grounds to see the lights. They are as beautiful as they always are and the night was mild so it was nice to walk around and check them out.
We also took a walk around inside the nativity scene collection. They have so many of them and they are beautiful. So many countries and materials. Amazing.
After looking at the nativity sets we walked around the little pond that has the nativity alphabet. We try and get a shot on the far end of the pond to capture all the lights behind us. My phone has a cracked front camera so every photo I take with it has weird light effects. It was even worse when there is nothing but a bunch of lights. I get crazy lens flares. I used Allison’s phone for the full family selfie.
This year we hosted Thanksgiving at our house. My parents came from the Cape and we also hosted Allison’s friend Colleen and her mother. Allison and Colleen prepared a ton of food last night and got ready for everything today. Allison made sure that she made many recipes that were gluten free so that my Mom could eat them including a gluten free green bean casserole. Colleen’s mom brought over a pumpkin bread that we can eat tomorrow morning. We had apple pie, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cake and chocolate chip cookie pie. So much food.
After dinner and everyone headed home we got changed into our Christmas pajamas. This is a yearly tradition. This was the first year that the pajamas fit well for sleeping. As we lounged in the new pajamas we enjoyed watching the movie 8-Bit Christmas. This was a hilarious movie about one kids’ quest to get a Nintendo Entertainment System. It starred Neil Patrick Harris and Steve Zahn. I really enjoyed it and we laughed a lot during the movie. Although, the movie was set in 1988 and that was a bit late in the NES and Cabbage Patch craze. Seeing as this was something I lived through and it was so close to my own personal Christmases of years past I remember the dates very clearly. Christmas 1984 was all about Transformers and Cabbage Patch Kids. My grandparents scoured the Eastern Seaboard for them. Christmas 1985 was the year of Nintendo and more Cabbage Patch kids. 1988 was way late in the NES game. That aside, it was a very fun movie.
