Nativity & Noel

So our stake puts on a community concert and Nativity display every year called
Nativity & Noel.

It features choirs and groups from the area, such as performance groups, and even some spectacular High school groups, and even work choirs (the walmart choir was fantastic :) ) as well as "The Ozark Mormon Chorale" including members from all over the area. I didn't get to stay and listen to all of them this year just a short sampling of some.
But hey maybe next year I'll be in it. :)
For this year I participated in the Nativity display.

It's called an International Nativity Display and includes Nativities from all over and a live Nativity performed every few minutes.
This year Alex and I and baby Jack got to be Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus.
I've done it once before when we had Allyson and I looked like the young teenage Mary. They were willing to over look that this year since we had a brand new baby boy who was absolutely perfect in the manger.
He just lay there and looked around all wrapped in swaddling clothes... He did need a pacifier on the last few times. Jack was 9 days old when we did this so I ended up trying my best to sit normally in between performances but it seems every time I sat down the music would be on to cue us for another round. It probably didn't help that we always ended up stopping to talk to people who wanted to see the baby and ask questions on our way out. :)

Oh well, oh, I'd started to say that having done this once before I have to say I am truly grateful to have had this experience. As wonderful as it is to watch a Nativity scene taking place before your eyes. It's fantastic to be apart of one. To sit there listening to the narration (it doesn't really matter to me what exactly it is, they all tell the same story) and knowing you are representing the earthly family of the Christ child let's me feel so much closer to the experience and there is nothing I can think of that helps me more to remember the true meaning of Christmas.


Merry Christmas to everyone. We love you all.

It's a boy!!!

It's a boy! 

OK, so I'm here and ready to go! If you want to see what I did for thanksgiving you'll have to check out my sisters blogs but really I think we're all past that now :) Please every one know that I am thankful for many things. :) I am now in the Christmas spirit and after birth pain! So here's the official announcement...

Jackson Alexander Sperry 

was Born

December Fourth Two Thousand Eight

At Three Thirty Three in the Afternoon

Weighing Seven pounds Nine ounces

At a Length of 

Twenty and one Half inches

to

Quintin Alexander Sperry

And 

Hillary Ann Sperry

hehe. Yeah, we are pretty excited! We have been so blessed by the love of friends and family too! From the shower and the meals and offers of childcare and personal care and visits, you have all been so wonderful. Alex just asked if I thought I would still know how to cook after this is over... my response... Well you know I can still make cheesecake so we're good. *Ahhhh, to live on cheesecake.* Sorry slight distraction, Anyway, Jackson has been well welcomed into this world. Now if we can just keep him awake to see it then maybe Alex and I can stay awake too. Can't wait for a good sleep pattern to kick in. At the right time of day. :)