Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
What I've been up to
Wow, I haven't posted in a while. Life has been so busy lately and I've only really had time online to read messages. No time to reply much either.
Some highlights since my last post:
Some highlights since my last post:
- dance class
- AWANA
- walking everywhere (my attempt to not gain weight this holiday season and save gas money)
- coffee with a friend
- parties
- our church's live nativity went really well and we had a larger cast this year, and therefore more costumes to be made, plus more sets along the drive-thru
- Christmas projects with family and friends (decorating, cards, gifts, baking, etc.)
- practice so we have singers for our Christmas eve service
- caroling with our homeschool co-op
- everyday things (library trips, grocery trips, trips to piano lessons, laundry, dishes, cooking, etc.)
- educational pursuits (helping the kids with these)
- planning for a New Year's Eve get together at church
- sadness over situations within my family (please pray)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Live Nativity
Our church is putting on its second live nativity (December 4 & 5) and I'm the costume coordinator again. A group of us work on the costumes and those days have been teasingly dubbed the Grace Fellowship sweat shop ;-)
There are 80 volunteers involved this year and they aren't just from our church. Wow!
Its fun and exhausting but so worth every minute of it. Especially when you hear how much it blesses people and reminds them why they celebrate Christmas to begin with.
To all the volunteers..........THANK YOU!!!
What characters are my family this year? Noelle is Mary, Kyle is a shepherd, Kirk is a wise man, and I'm a villager (so I can help where needed and take pictures :-) Hopefully, I'll get us together (in costume) for our family Christmas photo. Some of the families did this last year and the pictures were great!
I am taking off today through Saturday to focus on Thanksgiving and enjoying my family. I just wanted to share while I had a few minutes.
(You can see a hint of the costumes to the left but that's only about 1/4 of them)
There are 80 volunteers involved this year and they aren't just from our church. Wow!
Its fun and exhausting but so worth every minute of it. Especially when you hear how much it blesses people and reminds them why they celebrate Christmas to begin with.
To all the volunteers..........THANK YOU!!!
What characters are my family this year? Noelle is Mary, Kyle is a shepherd, Kirk is a wise man, and I'm a villager (so I can help where needed and take pictures :-) Hopefully, I'll get us together (in costume) for our family Christmas photo. Some of the families did this last year and the pictures were great!
I am taking off today through Saturday to focus on Thanksgiving and enjoying my family. I just wanted to share while I had a few minutes.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
More Christmas Fun
A friend gave Noelle an Amish Friendship Bread starter and she had so much fun with it. Better yet, baking in your pjs.....
Our church Christmas dinner was a lot of fun and of course I ate too much. We had cinnamon ham and come on, look at this dessert table.....
One of the ladies of our church, Martha, is a florist and does such a beautiful job on the centerpieces. Names were drawn for them to be taken home. I didn't win one but got a picture to share.
The evening wouldn't have been complete without something fun for everyone to do. We split up into teams to sing The 12 Days of Christmas. Each team had to sing their part and make up motions. Kyle was on team 1 and provided the partridge (envision a shadow puppet bird) in the pear tree. Noelle was on team 2 and they were graceful (slow flapping of arms) turtle doves. My team was the 8 maids-a-milking and we pretended to be milking a cow. I so wish I could have gotten pictures of it all, lol!
Our church Christmas dinner was a lot of fun and of course I ate too much. We had cinnamon ham and come on, look at this dessert table.....
One of the ladies of our church, Martha, is a florist and does such a beautiful job on the centerpieces. Names were drawn for them to be taken home. I didn't win one but got a picture to share.
The evening wouldn't have been complete without something fun for everyone to do. We split up into teams to sing The 12 Days of Christmas. Each team had to sing their part and make up motions. Kyle was on team 1 and provided the partridge (envision a shadow puppet bird) in the pear tree. Noelle was on team 2 and they were graceful (slow flapping of arms) turtle doves. My team was the 8 maids-a-milking and we pretended to be milking a cow. I so wish I could have gotten pictures of it all, lol!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Early Christmas Present
Its nice to get up and have quiet time in the mornings. I'm not really a morning person but have learned to adapt since getting married and having kids. Sure, as soon as I write this, I hear movement above.
Anyway..........
We finally got an "entertainment" computer for our living room.
Why?
We like to watch Netflix movies online and this is so much better than crowding around our other computer in the dining room (a too crowded room already). We also love to listen to online radio, I want to convert our family VHS movies to DVD, not to mention having a second computer will make it possible for both kids to be online at the same time or for me to keep up with my online activities while they share the other one ;) Merry Christmas to us!!
Owen has an opinion about all this extra activity. What do you think it is?
Anyway..........
We finally got an "entertainment" computer for our living room.
Why?
We like to watch Netflix movies online and this is so much better than crowding around our other computer in the dining room (a too crowded room already). We also love to listen to online radio, I want to convert our family VHS movies to DVD, not to mention having a second computer will make it possible for both kids to be online at the same time or for me to keep up with my online activities while they share the other one ;) Merry Christmas to us!!
Owen has an opinion about all this extra activity. What do you think it is?
Monday, December 8, 2008
Live Nativity
Our live nativity over the weekend went really well!! It was a great outreach to our community with 234 cars and 634 people going through (yes, we are a small town). Many people commented that they were blessed and wanted to know if we were going to do it next year? Yes, we're planning on it.
It was more like a Journey through Bethlehem than a live nativity but since I don't get to decide on the name of it, it works ;) I think we should add more to the town of Bethlehem (blacksmith, carpenter shop, etc.), a lot more people, warmer costumes, and many other areas we didn't see a need until we actually did things the first time.
My mom and step-dad went through and commented that they liked all the people walking around in costume along with many animals (not just posing at stations), it made it feel as if you were going through a real town.
The weather was cold and clear the first night, cold and gently snowing with a little wind the second. We tried having replacements for all the roles but didn't have quite enough people to do that. Hopefully more will join us next year now that we've actually done one. I know I'll be involved next year.
What was my character? I was a market vendor (even spent a little time filling in as Mary). Kirk was a wise man, Kyle was a shepherd, and Noelle was a servant at the inn.
All I have right now are some pictures I took during the building of sets and sewing costumes. As soon as I get some pictures of the actual event, I'll post them as well.
Our church "sweat shop" (My machine is the one in the foreground)
It was more like a Journey through Bethlehem than a live nativity but since I don't get to decide on the name of it, it works ;) I think we should add more to the town of Bethlehem (blacksmith, carpenter shop, etc.), a lot more people, warmer costumes, and many other areas we didn't see a need until we actually did things the first time.
My mom and step-dad went through and commented that they liked all the people walking around in costume along with many animals (not just posing at stations), it made it feel as if you were going through a real town.
The weather was cold and clear the first night, cold and gently snowing with a little wind the second. We tried having replacements for all the roles but didn't have quite enough people to do that. Hopefully more will join us next year now that we've actually done one. I know I'll be involved next year.
What was my character? I was a market vendor (even spent a little time filling in as Mary). Kirk was a wise man, Kyle was a shepherd, and Noelle was a servant at the inn.
All I have right now are some pictures I took during the building of sets and sewing costumes. As soon as I get some pictures of the actual event, I'll post them as well.
This was taken the first day of building with rough lumber
Our church "sweat shop" (My machine is the one in the foreground)
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