Christmas Neighborhood party

Its not often that someone besides me takes pictures of anything, but some of our neighbors brought a nice camera and sent me these pictures of our party.

Preparing for our skit from Matthew 2 

Caroline acting out one of the birth scriptures

Dirty looks from Emma

Um, I guess they had no women in their group

Angels We Have Heard on High Trio  (While holding a guests sleeping heavy baby)

A great picture of Luke!!

Mark sharing from the Big Picture Story Bible (It is translated, and we gave each family one as a gift)

The whole group.

Merry Christmas

Friends,

Merry Christmas.  Here are a lot of pictures from the last 3 weeks.  Mark is heading out today for a week and I'm hoping to not bake or cook anything the entire time he is gone.  I'm baked out.  Pray for patience and perseverance this week for me, and for Luke to sleep through the night again!!

Friday night movie night with our new neighbors kids.

Li stepped up again to the challenge and made this pirate hat for Lawrences birthday party.

Luke gets to meet our neighbors new baby(Praise God he is here!)

Marks treasure hunt.

Hit the pinata.

Student believer Christmas party

Marks birthday game night

Grandmas sweaters for church

HEs now wearing 6 month clothes!  He'll be 4 months old this weekend.

Caroline teaching Jerry to decorate Christmas cookies at our neighborhood Christmas party.

4 families came!

Chris emceed, everyone acted out the scriptures pertaining to Jesus' birth and Mark share the gospel

Student Christmas party(I didn't go to this, just Mark)

Our friends employee Christmas Party that we led.

Decorating Gingerbread houses.  Thanks Nat shushu for bringing them from the States!  I loved not having to put the houses together!!

Boys house

Ayi's gift

My gift for my friends with ovens!

New mittens from Ayi

Finished houses

Christmas Eve opening Grandmas pj's

Watching The Nativity Story

Woah

Trying to set the tone for the day.

Simon Says to keep the kids calm

Appetizer party.

Secret Santa

Its a Wonderful Life to finish the day.  Caroline was deeply troubled by the part of the movie when Clarence allows  Jimmy Stewart  to see his life as if he were never born.  She sobbed and told me today she wishes she would never have watched it!

And Mark had to keep running over to the new house to yell at the new landlord on Christmas Day as they don't have a holiday.  Here is the paint and the almost finished place.  C loves her purple room.

I'm excited to fit only 2 kids clothing in this closet as opposed to 4 that I'm doing now in a same size closet!

Boys room

Nice toilet!  Did I ever tell you that our current apt has old toilets that the landlord put in and we've had to fix one of them repeatedly?

The office

Master 

Hey, they put a shower in too!!

Um, oops, guess the oven we bought they put in the wrong place.