December 26, 2012

• Days of December

  Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  We sure did here.    We actually celebrated on Christmas Eve since Dad had to work at BGEA Library on Christmas.  It was fun getting done early.   

  Something a few of us were talking about was how Christ’s birth directly points to His death and resurrection.  So much attention is brought to only His birth without recognition of why He came.  While His birth is certainly worth celebrating and recognizing, it’s important to remember the reason He was born and how it affects us.  Praise God for His grace and forgiveness for those who believe!

  

  Our Christmas card for 2012

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  This post consists of pictures of some of the many activities that have gone on this month.  There are more to come, but this is a start…..and hopefully all 2012 pictures will be posted before 2013 rolls around!

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  Christopher’s CSYO fall concert.

  

  He’s an awesome concertmaster!

  

  

  Jen and one of her students who is in the JYO (the orchestra we all started out in).

  

  Family and friends who came to watch Christopher.

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  Girls afternoon at the music school!  I actually was only here for part of this, but the girls had a great time singing, watching a Ray Comfort evangelism video, eating, and hanging out.  Yay for friends!

  

   

   

   

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  ‘A Walk Through Bethlehem’ at a local church.

  

  With some of the McGarty’s

   

  Finding her shoe size and helping make bread

  

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  Just everyday life.  I snapped the two pictures below almost at the same time.  Marianna doing math with Dad and Christopher and Missy playing Dutch Blitz next to them.

  

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  Mom and the girls went on a field trip to the Billy Graham Library.

  

  

  Lots of animals for their nativity!

  

  

  Great place!

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  This year the music school Jen and I work for didn’t do a Christmas recital.  BUT we did schedule three retirement homes and different teachers went to the homes with several students and put on recitals for the residents there.  This is Jen with a number of her students.  They did an awesome job!

  

   

  This is Jen, Bethany, and Christopher playing a Christmas arrangement.  All four of us played it for church (I played the viola), but I wasn’t here at the retirement home.  Love this piece!

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  Bethany’s UNCC chamber ensemble concert.  The ensemble actually accompanied the UNCC chorale.  The chorale and ensemble were both AMAZING.  They performed Bach’s Magnificat.

  

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  Mom and Marianna went on another field trip to a Nutcracker performance uptown.  Missy was sick so she stayed home with me to decorate the tree, make cookies, and play a games. 

  

  The kids were so excited to ride the train.

  

  Uptown!!

  

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  Last Sunday, our friend Naomi came over.  We had fun hanging out and making cookies and peanut butter balls.  Yum!

  

  The next day was our church’s Christmas cantata

  

  Here’s the orchestra!  They did a great job.  The cantata went really well and everyone one (the choir included) sounded wonderful.

  After the cantata, our family went ot the Carter’s for dinner.  Cincinnati Chili baby!!!  Oh yeah!

  

  Thankful for friends like them.  Fun times!

   

  More to come soon!  Like our caroling event, our Christmas party, and other Christmas activities.

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