Sunday Before Christmas

The Sunday before Christmas has been a day I've looked forward to for several years now. I get the chance to spoil my Sunday school youngsters a bit and reward them for their work. I always work my schedule so that we have a review day then. This year has been great so far! (we promote in September). I teach 4th and 5th graders and we rotate between studying the Gospels and Acts. Acts is my favorite and we are already into chapter 11 this year.

Matthew L. and Trinity were on Team "Reindeer" and took third place.

Matthew F. (Team "Elves") was by himself until Collin arrived in the last five. They took 2nd Place. (Yeah, there's Christmas lights strung up behind him.)

And Allison and Emily made up Team "Snowmen". They hung in to take 1st Place in our review contest. Since they both came into the day with over 100 stickers each (my reward system lingo), they both cleaned up on prizes!

A Wonderful Christmas Gathering

Dad, Julie and Me

Julie, John, Jax and Coco hosted a wonderful Christmas lunch this past Sunday. Everything was so very nice. The food was ALL great (not always something you can say at these things ;) ). My strawberry frozen salad was the best dish...NOT! Julie's table decor was amazing and I'm sure she'll be sharing some pix of that. Thanks Chickadee!

Updated Garden Pictures

I've finally gotten around to posting some 2008 garden pictures. There's not a lot to show and some of it is repeditive from previous years, but some plants were newcomers. Check out the new page at the 2008 Summary page.