The Days of Christmas

Here's a quick December recap for all you faithful blog readers:


Every morning Joel and Amelia open their small Christmas gift, on alternate days, after reading the Bible text from the Christmas story for that day.

Joel and Amelia run their very own Christmas card factory.

Joel poses with one of his card creations next to the Veggie Tales Nativity scene.



These pictures were taken at our last community group function of the semester. We celebrated with three of the students who are December graduates of Pacific Islands University.


The PIU Student Council Christmas banquet is always one of the fun events of the school year.

Marisol and I are teaching the two-year-olds at Bayview this month. Caitlyn, Josiah, and the rest keep us hopping. I don't hop as fast as I did twenty years ago :) I'm glad for the happy hopping wife!


We attended Harvest Baptist Church's Christmas pageant for the fourth straight year and hobnobbed afterwards with our good friend Lisa, the Harvest pianist. I love this picture. You can see our children's love for Lisa and vice versa.

The Christmas season would not be complete without a trip to Micronesia mall for the Christmas tree music/light show, the styrofoam snow (okay, that part is kind of cheesy), and the ride on the train.


I shared a Christmas story at men's dorm devotions on Monday night. I think the guys enjoyed it. Ransome (green shirt) cheered up somewhat after I handed out the candy canes.
Hope you are enjoying the preparations for Christmas as much as we are. More still to come.

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Bill said…
Thanks for the photo round-up. Great smiles from the kids, as always.
December 18, 2009 at 6:27 AM
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