A year

Smiles

Art

Kaelyn and I have been busy creating artwork together.

Christmas dinner

Cast

Angel

King Herod and a wise woman

Shepherds

Angel

Mary and Joseph

Angel

Herod's Consultant

Christmas Eve

 We celebrated Christmas Eve again at the Cookie House this year. The menu included salad with pecans, pomegranates and pears, pretzel rolls, cranberry glazed pork loin, roasted garlic potatoes, unadulterated asparagus, and coconut cake served with raspberry hibiscus tea. 

Merry Christmas

Wrapping

Stalactite

Game

The uncles are practicing so they can play with their nieces.

End of semester

Students are done and instructors are done for the semester, but administrators are still working.

Tear down that wall

 Since the school room is no longer needed for school, my parents decided to expand the living room by tearing down the wall that separates the two rooms.

Snowflakes

"I know why there are snowflakes on the windows," Hosanna told me at church a couple of weeks ago. "It's because we want it to snow." Sure enough, it worked. 

Winter

After work

It's the time of year when I take a flashlight when I get the mail because it's dark when I return home.

Blue and white

Black and white comedy

Abbot and Costello

Dishwasher

 Most of the time I wash my dishes by hand, but when I have people over, it's sure nice to have a dishwasher (especially when someone else loads it).  

Rewire

Snow

Cup

Hot chocolate

 After singing at the Dow Gardens' Christmas walk, most of the choir came over for hot chocolate and caramel corn.

Brown

Dinner

 Brian made dinner last night. We had pizza.

Busy

Staff gifts

Last week we went shopping for gifts for our staff.

Dinner

Charlie

Mail

Now that the election is over, I'm receiving a lot less mail. Some days my mailbox is even empty. 

Jerky

Windows update

Dark

Pies

Belly rub

Field

Venison

Logan shot a buck earlier this week, and he and Libby and crew spent hours Friday processing the meat. Charlie was thrilled when I gave him a leg bone.