christmas pictures

Leading up to Christmas 2007

Wow! That went too quickly! I love every wonderful minute leading up to Christmas. It starts, of course, the day AFTER Christmas--so I'm already looking forward to 2008... December 2007 flew away, didn't it.  The kids got out of school on the 19th.  I love to have them home!  On the 21st we began "performing" in a "Night in Bethlehem", two shows @ 6 & 7:30 p.m.On the 22nd we did two shows again.  It's such a wonderful way of  "going back and being there" to when Christ was born.  We are indebted to our dear friends who let our entire family " be in" on the event. On the 23rd Our Christmas Choir had our performance.  It went well.  I can honestly say that the funnest/most enjoyable part of Christmas Choir is the rehearsals. Practices are October through December on Saturdays, 7-8 a.m.. Our last practice was December 22. We went to the "Christmas House" after our performance. The Christmas House is an extensively decorated house on the west side of Provo. They not only have oodles of decorations on the outside, but the inside too. They have an Open House and invite "the world" into their home. They have 7 or so Christmas trees and every animated Santa or Snowman imaginable. There are 2 or 3 trainsets. The trees are themed--one is full of ornaments from Korea, one is Patriotic, one is "old fashioned" with the silver icicles all over. On Christmas Eve the "Bethlehem" performance was @ 5 p.m. We went home and enjoyed some time with our fun friends, Kristen & Carlos. The little girls were excited to get a plate set out for Santa....cookies & milk, and carrots (for Rudolph). Soon it was time for Jeff & me to perform again with our Christmas Choir. We, a choir from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were the choir for St. Mary's Episcopal Church "midnight" mass. It began @ 9:30 p.m. and was over by 11 p.m.
There is something magical about the still of the night on Christmas Eve. It's so quiet outside. There is an energy in the air, a quiet excitement...Jeff and I scurried around in the cold to retrieve hidden packages from the car and garage...all the while it was so peaceful.

I tend to go on and on...I'll make another installment soon.

Hey sorry it's taken so long to write a new post i just finished finals and am waiting for my grades which makes me nervous. Anyway apart from my school stuff mom and dad have been going crazy making and getting presents together. This time next week it will be the day after christmas. How sad... but then i can tell you what i made for the rest of the kids. I am actually really excited about it. Today all of the elementary, middle, and high schools have early dismissal so by 1 everyone will be home but mom and dad have a faculty/staff meeting at the high school so i get to baby sit but thats okay i like it, i guess.

Today is like the calm before the storm. Tonight we have costuming for Bethlehem. Friday and Saturday we have two shows each day and monday we have one it should be fun and it forces everyone to get their gifts done before that. http://www.nightinbethlehem.com/ tomorrow we start to make Crescents.
so on that note i think i will ether get some breakfast or work on some gifts. -Lila

PS Wacky has a singing solo in front of the whole school today.

Good luck to her!!!

: )

My Visiting Teacher Companion's sister, Gwen, is in a choir in Spanish Fork. She discovered I sew. I was able to make some extra Christmas $ by sewing her a blouse. It's a very simple design. The fabric is sparkly and a bit tricky to sew. The shirt is lined with red satin-ish fabric. interesting. #11 sewing machine needle needed.


Here's a picture of the north side of our snowy home.



Sweet Googla in front of our Christmas tree 2007.

snow

today it snowed. i am so happy, we all have been waiting for so long. i was walking home from my saturday morning class over at the college and i had the camera so i took some pictures (wow that makes sense) any way here are some i took.

Birthday

hello every one its Lila talking. Dads birthday was yesterday it was fun. some of the highlight items that he was very happy about are
Oster Classic 76 Professional Clipper Hair Trimmer

which was an Ebay treasure. he also is the proud owner of a book by the name of Reliant Regal & Robin by Don Pither.
but of course that was not all that he got or did but there are many things that i need to do. so with that i will leave you with a picture of his cheesecake ( always his birthday cake of choice)

synchronized leaf swiming