Monday, January 4, 2010

December 2009

Sometimes life is just too much fun to bother with blogging, and that's how it was with our lives between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Some of the events I enjoyed the most were:
  • Setting up the nativity set in the front yard with the grandkids and hanging the Christmas lights on the house on the day after Thanksgiving.
  • Celebrating Matt's 25th birthday on Nov. 29, and Carol's birthday on Dec. 5.
  • Going to see the opening night of the Rockette's Christmas performance (courtesy of my sister), with my sister, her husband and friends, Carol, our two youngest kids and their dates.
  • Going to our Sunday School class's Christmas fellowship, and hosting our 21st annual neighborhood Christmas party.
  • Going to our church's fantastic Christmas concert, with choir and orchestra, and sitting in a packed out sanctuary on the second night of the performance.
  • Traveling to Illinois with Carol, as we spent Christmas and a few days before with our kids and grandkids there.
  • Attending the Christmas Eve service at the church where our son Daniel serves as the pastor.
  • Stopping by Arkansas on the way home to see my brother, my sister, their spouses and some other family members.
  • Exchanging presents and celebrating a late Christmas with the Dallas-Fort Worth kids.
  • Celebrating New Year's Eve with friends and family as we watched Tennessee play Virginia Tech in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl.
  • Too many other wonderful times at church, with family, friends, co-workers and clients to mention, and even driving around listening to Christmas carols with a Christmas ornament hanging from the rear view window of my truck.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures of the holidays. The pics are small, but worth clicking onto to get the big picture:

Setting up the Nativity Set with the grandkids, and others:










Birthday celebrations:













Alyssa and her Christmas slide. She was too little to manage sliding down on her bottom, and had to slide down head first on her tummy.






Christmas with Peoria grandkids:





With siblings and siblings-in-laws in Heber Springs, Arkansas:

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