The children "led" in worship on Sunday, December 18. It was basically mass chaos, but they were cute.
"Go Tell It On the Mountain" had a lot of motions! :)
On Christmas Eve we went to candlelight service on the square in Ocala and then out to eat Chinese afterwards.
Christmas Day was rather disappointing this year. Let's just say that it's tough when your love language is gift giving and no one else in your family has the same love language. I put a lot of effort in to getting the exactly perfect gifts for everyone else, but it is not reciprocated. I also do NOT like being away from home on Christmas Day. However, now that we live in a different town than Greg's mom, it take too much time to go get her and bring her here for lunch (which is what we used to do) then take her back home and come home ourselves. That would be 3 hours of driving alone. So we went to Greg's brother's house. We had a good time, but I still don't like being out of my own house on Christmas Day. We did go to our usual movie that evening. We saw the Adventures of Tintin, which was awesome!
Traditional Christmas morning photo
Carys got some art supplies, a Pinkie Pie RC Car, Wikisticks, and some kid headphones (with volume control).
Landon got a couple new shirts, some new socks (he asked for all of these clothing items), and a refrigerator for his dorm room (from Craigslist!).
Gerren got some new headphones, a watch, and a new sweat jacket.
Chase got tips for her arrows (which she got last Christmas - sigh!), a new bedding set, 2 guitar hooks, and a bale of hay (to shoot her arrows into).
I LOVE this picture of Chase.
Another disappointing thing about this December was the weather. It was so warm I wanted to weep! You can see by the clothes Carys is wearing in early December exactly how warm it was!
The day after Christmas Gerren left for a little over a week for Winter Encampment. It actually got a little cooler after Christmas, thankfully.
Carys fell asleep on our bed one night.
Who knows why she pulled the covers over her face like this?
Landon voted by absentee ballot while he was home. This was his very first time to vote, so he wanted me to take a picture.
He was proud to be voting for Ron Paul!
Landon treated Chase and I to Five Guys and the new Sherlock Holmes movie one afternoon. The Lacognatas were so gracious to watch Carys for us. Sarah took this awesome picture!
That pretty much sums up December (except for my 49th birthday which I'm ignoring!). :)
2 comments:
1. Cool photo of Carys and the balloons!
2. I like how you condensed December--now that it's the end of January. My blog has been terribly neglected, and I'm feeling like a miserable failure because of it.
3. Holly cannot wait to vote in this year's presidential election. She turns 18 in October!
4. Happy birthday! I'm sure my 49th birthday will be uneventful, and I'll have to celebrate it every year to get it right. :)
Me, too, Kristine! 49 every year!
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