Christmas Program at Church

Since Christmas was on a Sunday this year, things were a little different. Most Brazilians celebrate on the night of Christmas Eve, so we had our normal services on Sunday with some special activities added in. 

For a little over a year I have been teaching a Sunday school class for 2-6 year olds. We have four little girls who are there every Sunday, and I have really enjoyed teaching them. They are still sort of small to do a Christmas program with any speaking parts, and they all tend to freeze up in front of people, so I decided to have them just dress up to illustrate parts of the Christmas story as Jeremy read the passage from Luke 2. By the way, that's Josiah playing the piano in the background!

I think they had a good time doing it, and they sure looked cute. It's in Portuguese, of course, but if you want to watch it, here it is. We had the camera on a tripod, and it took Jonathan a few minutes to realize that Jeremy's head was cut off! 😀

Part 1

 

Part 2

Here are a few snapshots from when they did it for the morning service as a practice.

Merry Christmas!

Just a few pictures of our day on Christmas. We actually celebrated on Christmas Eve since we had church events on Sunday. It was a nice day together with no schedules or deadlines, just enjoying the time together. We missed our families that are spread all over the world, but we enjoyed video Skyping with grandparents which made them seem not quite as far away. 

No, he didn't really get a blender...but looks like he would have been happy with one!

Actually, the only thing he asked for was a globe, so he was happy to get this one.

When Your Spelling Memory Tricks Go Wrong

This TYRANT could be the next villain on "Veggie Tales"

A Little Bit of Pink

For obvious reasons (three of them), we don't have a lot of pink around our house.  This is reflected in many areas, one of which is my cake decorating hobby.  All of the cakes I make have definite boys themes. 

Recently, however, I had the opportunity to make a girly cake for a little girl from our church. I enjoyed it, and I think she liked it too.

God has given us a bunch of little girls in our church group, and it has been fun to be "aunt" to them.

Christmas Calories

Yesterday we did our annual Christmas cookie decorating.  It's a bit of a mess, but the boys have a lot of fun with this. We all got involved this year, and it really was fun. The boys improve every year! Maybe someday we can go into business! 😄

Orchestra Debut

We had the opportunity recently to join the city orchestra here in Vilhena.  It has been great experience for the boys, and we hope that through it we can make new contacts and become involved in some community events.

Saturday was the first presentation we were able to participate in. It was a casual event, playing some Christmas music in a park downtown. We enjoyed it and the boys were excited about it.

Josiah and Jonathan ready to go!

(Next time I need to get them to pose with their instruments...oops!)

Judson is the photographer, since he is not yet playing in the orchestra.  He is learning clarinet and doing great, but is still a beginner.  He goes with us to practice though to watch and listen. His favorite thing is to watch the first violin player, because when she plays, her hair falls in her face and he thinks that is just great!  He always tries to sit where he can see her.  She doesn't even know she has such an admirer!

We didn't get many pictures of the actual event, since we were playing,

but Jeremy snapped this one from the back while warming up.

Out for ice cream and açai afterwards