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Friday, December 24, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Christmas is almost here!
Well, the Halloween and Thanksgiving festivities have passed since our last post and now we look forward to the celebration of our Savior's birth. Since we're not back in Bothell, the girls longed for something that felt like home so the pestering about getting a Christmas tree began a day or two after Halloween. The parental guilt of not going home for Christmas added to our inability to hold out until after Thanksgiving. So, two weeks into November, our little tree was already up. We bought a few lights, ornaments, and a fairly cheap 6-foot tree and the girls took delight in decorating it. Since the tree was a bit short on ornaments, we decided to cut up some cardboard boxes and make ornaments of our own. It is a bit surreal to celebrate Christmas when it is sunny and 70 degrees every day but don't in any way take that as a complaint.
School is bumping along as normal with kids (and teachers) anxious for Christmas break and music concerts just a week away. Kimberly has been preparing all of her choir classes for this concert since August so please pray that things go as planned and that the students will perform their best. Over break, Kimberly's sister will be coming down for about nine days to check out our life here. We plan to take her to all the main sights here in Tegus and then spend four days hanging out on the beach in Amapala. It will be fun to play tour guide to our first visitor and even better to have someone from home to celebrate Christmas with.
On Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, we had the opportunity to serve some less fortunate kids. There is a breakfast program at a small church in a rather poor part of Tegucigalpa that welcomes volunteers to help out. So, we packed up the girls and went with a few other teachers to help make breakfast and just hang out with the children. Our girls were fairly hesitant to go but after it was all done, they didn't want to leave and asked when we would return. It is such a blessing to see the joy our daughters get by serving others. We figured that a good expression of our thanksgiving would be to extend our time and energy to others. It was an enriching experience that we hope to do again sometime soon.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! Here are a few photos of our fall party, Christmas tree decorating, Thanksgiving, and volunteering in Tegus.
November 2010 Photos
School is bumping along as normal with kids (and teachers) anxious for Christmas break and music concerts just a week away. Kimberly has been preparing all of her choir classes for this concert since August so please pray that things go as planned and that the students will perform their best. Over break, Kimberly's sister will be coming down for about nine days to check out our life here. We plan to take her to all the main sights here in Tegus and then spend four days hanging out on the beach in Amapala. It will be fun to play tour guide to our first visitor and even better to have someone from home to celebrate Christmas with.
On Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, we had the opportunity to serve some less fortunate kids. There is a breakfast program at a small church in a rather poor part of Tegucigalpa that welcomes volunteers to help out. So, we packed up the girls and went with a few other teachers to help make breakfast and just hang out with the children. Our girls were fairly hesitant to go but after it was all done, they didn't want to leave and asked when we would return. It is such a blessing to see the joy our daughters get by serving others. We figured that a good expression of our thanksgiving would be to extend our time and energy to others. It was an enriching experience that we hope to do again sometime soon.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! Here are a few photos of our fall party, Christmas tree decorating, Thanksgiving, and volunteering in Tegus.
November 2010 Photos
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