I love this
time of year. As I think back over the last month and what to put in this
update, I remember the great Thanksgiving we had with Cai and Amy visiting, the
excellent food we ate, the fun games we played, and the joy of just spending
time with family. And I realize that in less than a week, I’ll get to see
all of my other kids and their families. Cai and Amy both have to work on
Christmas Eve (the consequence of working at churches), and then they’re going
to visit Amy’s family in Connecticut for Christmas. Sadly, we won’t see
them again, but that’s what happens when you are a part of two different
families.
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| Cai, Amy, and Levi playing a game together (I don't think the doll is part of it) |
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| This is our Thanksgiving feast eating contest (Cai and Abigail won) |
We celebrated
Zach’s birthday on 11/23, Amelia’s birthday on 12/3, and Josie’s 1st birthday
on 12/5. I can’t believe my youngest grandchild is already one, but
thankfully there will soon be two more: both Hannah and Kortney are
expecting babies (one each—don’t get overly excited) in the first few months of
2019. That will make nine grandchildren God has blessed me with!
His grace to me is so much more than I deserve.
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| Zach with his birthday gifts. The little things in front are Apollo mission logo coins |
My barbershop
chorus has been doing Christmas concerts lately at malls and the church of two
of our members. I love singing Christmas songs, so it’s been very fun for
me. We also participated in a Christmas concert at a local school.
One of our members (his name is Stas) is the music director at that school, and
he arranged for us to sing a couple of songs with his middle school chorus and
a couple more on our own. Now you can probably guess that middle
schoolers aren’t necessarily the best singers. Especially in this
school’s case, where Stas was hired to basically resurrect the music program
which had pretty much died. Some of the kids in the chorus chose to be
there, but others had to take it just to get the elective credit they
needed. So, it was a bit of a challenge to sing with people some of which
really can’t sing. But it was still fun, and they seemed to really enjoy
and appreciate us singing with and for them.
Most of you
probably get a Christmas card from us, but in case you don’t and you wonder
what we look like these days, here you go.
The picture is from Cai and Amy’s wedding in August.
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| Greg, Levi, Ruby, Carissa, Caitlin, Ben, Matt, Amelia, Alma, Kevin, Hannah, Cai, Alex, Amy, Kortney, Daisy, Mat, Zach, Abigail, Jemmie, Hazel, Ella, Krista, Josie, Ivy, Cody |
And with that
I’ll wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
