Loads of photos, loads of memory-making moments….
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- We had a slide show about St. Nicholas before our Puppet Show.
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- The captivated audience….
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- As you can see, the adults enjoyed the show as much as the kids!
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- At the end of the puppet show, we all sang a little song to the tune of Jolly Old St. Nicholas. We found it on the internet and we liked the words better than the original.
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- Black Pete gives straw to bad boys and girls. St. Nicholas gives goodies.
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- A couch always makes for a good puppet theater!
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- We have a room off the kitchen that we use for movies. Here’s the gang gathered for a good ol’ movie!
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- The Blessing of the Christmas Tree
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- Our bare tree
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- Our Advent tree
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- Our Christmas tree
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- Playing the latest rage…..Mancala!
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- Angelo’s…ahem….city?
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- Whoa!
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- Practising for the Talent Show
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- Talent Show practice
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- The beginning of our Spiritual Christmas Crib….
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- Crevices and Cobwebs….
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- Margy Rembrandt
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- Angelo
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- Gemma
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- Hannah, Gemma and myself.
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- Just a few more days of Van Gogh. 😀 I don’t know how we ended up with an orange ox with blue horns. And see the white paper? That’s to cover up my version of the water. The kids booed my hand pump down, thus the white paper glued over it. Yesterday was the shepherds and since there was no room they got the white paper….supposed to look like they are in the distance.
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- Rosie dislikes this room we call the office. She cleans it. I love this room. It has so much “culture” in it! No, I didn’t say “clutter”….but that, too.
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- The computer part of the office.
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- Reality Check. The laundry part of the office….ouch….so much for culture. 😛
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- Visiting the Old Folks’ Home
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- Christmas carols for the old folks….the crowd is enthused. 😉 They really DID like it….
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- Missouri ladies with some Kansas folks at Silver Dollar city for a lovely Christmas outing!
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- Regina and Michelle VanderPutten
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- Regina, Hillarie and Little Amy
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- Regina VanderPutten, Emily Harder
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- Char Harder, Regina Vdp
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- The Missouri Vdp’s stable
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- All lit up!
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- Gemma directed a little play about Tarcisius.
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- Here they are pummeling Tarcisius with rocks.
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- Here are the socks…..I mean rocks. 😀
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- Tarcisius lay dying…..
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- Father prays for him as he dies.
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- Final bow!
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- Margy
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- Decorating
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- Decorating is time consuming around here. The kids have taken the task in their hands. I oversee and try to clean up around everything.
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- Decorating
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- Our good friend, Paul, ended up helping us decorate. He dislikes pictures of himself and that is why we took many…..hehe
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- Our first, and maybe last??? winter snow.
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- Our good friend, David Gallant, beside my brother-in-law, Johnny, with my mother-in-law, Maria…..Emily and Sebastian Vdp are joining them. This is in Missouri where a lot of our people go to visit.
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- Theresa’s little guy making their stable look pretty
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- All done!
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- Hillarie bought aprons for Christmas and couldn’t resist giving them to the girls early.
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- We went to a Contra Dance and had a lot of fun.
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- The band was excellent!
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- Agnes and Uncle Dominic
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- Making cookies to give away.
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- The cooks.
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- There’s something about Margy…..we haven’t quite figured it out. 😀
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- The girls made cherry flips and peanut butter balls….our favorites! I didn’t notice Angelo in there until today when I was looking at the photos…..hehe….it was a candid shot…
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- 4th Sunday of Advent with friends and family….
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- Thank God for our Holy Faith!
Very nice! 🙂 I especially like the change from the Advent tree to the Christmas tree! The kids thought it was really beautiful. 🙂
Awesome pics Aunt Leane! Thanks for putting them all together and posting them for us to see:)
You have such a wonderfully lovely family Leane. Many blessings to you and yours this Advent season.
Thank you kindly. 🙂 I wish the same for you and yours, donalgraeme!