Christmastime!
I love this time of the year! I guess that there is just so much activity that is hard to get bored or lonely. There is so much beauty all around and the beautiful snow just puts the finishing touch on everything.This is a picture of our Christmas tree this year. The tree is aging and is not as good looking as it used to be, so I just took a close up which makes it look wonderful! :)
Last Saturday was our annual church staff party at Bob and Cathi's home. We always have a wonderful time together. We all contribute to the wonderful meal and then we usually have some type of activity for the rest of the evening. Lately our youth intern has been in charge of an activity or game to get us all interacting. Kevin, this year's intern, did a great job of planning a fun game for us to play in teams. This is a picture of Terry and Jim, husband of Bob's assistant.
Last night Terry and I were able to go down to the Fox Theatre in Detroit with some friends to see the live play, "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin. It is just so beautiful at the Fox. Before the play, we got to eat upstairs behind the box seats and had a really great meal together. We were overlooking the main entrance hall and got to view all the beautiful decorations and carolers and a choir singing Christmas carols.
The decorations were just gorgeous and of course, all of the gold and carvings are awesome there. The play was done just beautifully and had elaborate sets that were changed often. The actors and actresses did a great job also. It was one of the better done plays I have ever seen. So it was a very fun night - very Christmasy, with good food and friends!
This morning we woke up to this beautiful scene. We had our own white Christmas! :) It has been snowing since about 6:00 this morning and we have about eight inches so far by our house. Terry and I got to drive in it early this morning because I had an appointment at Troy Beaumont. It was an adventure driving in the snowstorm and kind of fun!
Last Saturday was our annual church staff party at Bob and Cathi's home. We always have a wonderful time together. We all contribute to the wonderful meal and then we usually have some type of activity for the rest of the evening. Lately our youth intern has been in charge of an activity or game to get us all interacting. Kevin, this year's intern, did a great job of planning a fun game for us to play in teams. This is a picture of Terry and Jim, husband of Bob's assistant.
This is Jan, Bob's assistant and Dena, our Youth Pastor's wife in front of the beautiful fireplace in Bob and Cathi's family room.
Last night Terry and I were able to go down to the Fox Theatre in Detroit with some friends to see the live play, "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin. It is just so beautiful at the Fox. Before the play, we got to eat upstairs behind the box seats and had a really great meal together. We were overlooking the main entrance hall and got to view all the beautiful decorations and carolers and a choir singing Christmas carols.
This is Sandy and Ken, Terry's brother, by the beautiful tree in the entrance hall.
The decorations were just gorgeous and of course, all of the gold and carvings are awesome there. The play was done just beautifully and had elaborate sets that were changed often. The actors and actresses did a great job also. It was one of the better done plays I have ever seen. So it was a very fun night - very Christmasy, with good food and friends!
These are some pictures of the inside of the theatre.
This is what it looked like outside our home this morning. Isn't it beautiful?
We are looking forward to this week. Our daughter, son-in-law and four month old granddaughter are heading this way tonight from Tennessee to spend the Christmas holiday at home. AND we have another new grandchild born at the beginning of December - Nolan. So we are looking forward to a nice Christmas spent we our daughters, their husbands, and our three grandchildren. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas, too, as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
The verse on this picture is too small to read, but here it is:
John 1: 10-12
"He came into the very world he created, but the world didn't recognize him. He came to his own people, and even they rejected him. But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God."
PRAISE THE LORD!
