December was a very busy month here. We attended the usual Christmas tree lighting event on base. We took our folks to see the Living Christmas Tree in Nampa and Handel’s Messiah in Boise. We had a Christmas party for our Wednesday night discipleship group (pictured below).
We got to spend Christmas Eve at the Barnes’ in Payette. It was bittersweet this year because it was the first year without my sweet grandma.
Christmas day we had a crowd at our house. We ate good food, did the motions to the “Twelve Days of Christmas” and opened white elephant gifts. We had some people over who hadn’t been to our house before. I think we made them feel at home.
We have very much enjoyed have Chaplain Schrader as our pastor for the morning service. He preaches faithfully from the Word of God and even gets the children involved. In this picture below, he was explaining to them how we should be so expectant for God to feed us that we should open our mouths heavenward.
New Year’s Eve was celebrated 1920’s style. We ate foods popular then, did the Charleston and took lots of pictures. Someone came up with the best idea. We would watch the ball drop in New York City (via television) and celebrate at that time. So we let out cheers of “Happy New Year” at 10 PM Mountain Time.
