This year, the cousins cooked up a little plan to present Tony's family with a Live Nativity. The newest cousin, Aiden, is only 2 weeks old, so he was the perfect baby Jesus. Emily was Mary, Blane was Joseph, Ally Beth was Gabriel (with hot pink fairy wings that Aunt April and Uncle Joel had given her for Christmas), Andrew and Nathan were shepherds, and Caleb and J.T. were sheep. Oh, Uncle Joe doubled as Mary's donkey and later a wiseman. Doug and Tony joined Joe to round out the Three Kings...
The kids got to play their Christmas piano pieces and the older ones recited the Christmas story from Luke 2 at intervals as the story unfolded.
It was such an amazing time of wonder and awe. It was a precious memory that NONE of the Busti Bunch will ever forget...it was the best Christmas Pageant EVER! The stage is Grandma's living room...
But first, backstage (the room beside the living room), here are the cousins, hamming it up!
Here is one sheep and the shepherds (from left: John Thomas, Andrew & Nathan)
Here's Mary, climbing off her "donkey" (aka Uncle Joe):
Joseph, Mary & baby Jesus (who is in the bouncy seat in an adorable khaki reindeer suit!)
The angels announcing the news to the shepherds:
Nathan the shepherd comes to worship the baby Jesus:
The wise men come to worship:
The finale: a Jingle Bells singalong:
Jesus...the Reason for the Season...the Reason for LIFE!
