Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The Week Before Christmas

This will be the first Christmas without one of our kids with us. I’m sad for that. But we will be able to spend Christmas Eve with my family in Payette at Aunt Myrna and Uncle Drexell’s house. As a kid, I would spend every Christmas Eve with them.  This will be the first Christmas Eve with them as an adult. I was hoping we would have a white Christmas. Most of our snow melted and it looked as if it wouldn’t happen. This morning I awoke to this.

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It looks like temperatures will stay low for the next few days.  We also will have a good sized group here for Christmas day. I’m spending most of today figuring out the logistics of menu and where to put things.

Last week as were driving onto the base, we saw these little snowmen perched on the wall by the guard area.

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Ministry here is going well.  We stay plenty busy. Sunday at Velocity, when I expected numbers to be down because some of our folks had already begun their Christmas break, the numbers were up. We also have a good sized group coming on Friday nights to our study/meal/get together. We are very grateful.

I have the honor of working with two lovely ladies on the praise and worship team at PWOC. Sharlene and Stephanie are a joy to work with.

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Pictured with us is Sharlene’s daughter, Meleeya. She also loves to sing and has sung with us before at PWOC.

Merry Christmas!

 

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Snow and the “Living Christmas Tree”

As I’m typing this, the temperature outside is in the single digits. It is COLD! We had snow yesterday. Ed took this shot out our back window.

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This past Friday Ed and I went with 8 folks from our “Truth Project” group to see the “Living Christmas Tree” in Nampa.  We had a wonderful time. The tree in the middle of the stage lights up many different ways. The technical staff there definitely deserved a standing ovation.

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Chris and Tony are the “Cool LTs”

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We had a great view from the balcony.

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A picture of our group from behind.

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Very beautiful!

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Afterward, we enjoyed some food at Denny’s in Boise. We are so thankful for our group here. We laugh so much. We also encourage each other in the true reason for the season, Jesus.

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It took many shots to finally get this pose.  They couldn’t stop laughing.

Ed told them to watch the pros do it (below).

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Merry Christmas everyone!