Christmas Pictures

I have (literally) hundreds of pictures from the various Christmas celebrations that we enjoyed this year. I thought I'd just post my favorites in whatever order they were stored into my computer, so they are pretty much all jumbled up. We had Christmas Eve at Nana & Papa's. Christmas morning was just Mark, the kids & I. Christmas dinner was here with the Parmley side of the family.
Enjoy!

Christmas Vacation, Anyone?

It is the Monday before Christmas, and we are still "doing" school! Not that we are behind schedule...on the contrary, we started second semester in early December. With baby Nathaniel coming to stay with us in April we are focused on being done with the school year by then.
We've been baking up a storm of Christmas treats! The proof is in the messy kitchen:
Mark made a pan of fudge practically by himself:
We made 12 dozen of these peppermint shortbread cookies to give out:
Maya dipped all 144 of them in powdered sugar:
Sunday the children at church performed a few Christmas songs. Here is Maya, front and center of the 7-to-12-year-olds: Here is a short clip of one of their songs:


Then the 2-to-5-year-olds joined them on stage. Here's Mark in his little suit and tie:
Here's big Mark. He was teaching in the 3 and 4 year old class so he got to take a very special roll in the program...keeping the 3 and 4 year olds from acting up!
See the little cutie on the first row with a red sweater and glasses? Her name is Gracie and she is very fond of Marky. See him here checking her out...they are special friends! Here's a clip of one of Mark's songs:


Here's a quick clip of the whole group:
What a great group of kids!!