Kids Christmas Party

Here are a few pictures from our Christmas program and party at Lighthouse a couple weeks ago. We had around sixteen to nineteen kids, which was more then I expected. I only made fifteen goody bags, so real quick (during nursery) Emily made up a few more bags, lest we have a few, very disappointed,  kids.:-)
Since the next post will probably be Christmas day or after Christmas, I'll wish you a Merry Christmas now. 
 By - Emily and Ashlyn

singing for the parents

 

Afterward we had a Christmas Party for them. This is the King in "pin a crown  on the King".

Sara with "The King"

One of our Kings

We all have those days. 

Puppets 

During the lesson

Sara and Ashlyn were soooo engrossed

The king with all his crowns

What we felt like at the end of the day...

Christmas decorations

Snowball
~Shel Silverstein

I made myself a snowball,
As perfect as could be,
I thought I'd keep it as a pet,
And let it sleep with me.

I made it some pajamas,
And a pillow for its head,
Then last night it ran away,
But first - it wet the bed!

On Wednesday we started our Christmas baking and decorations...So much fun!! :o) We made cute little gingerbread houses and some fun snow flakes...   

Here is the gingerbread houses' walls and roofs 

up close of course... 

the walls with their candy on them... 

Emily putting them together 

                                                       

Ashlyn helping her, she got confused at times.

                                                        

                                             

                                                           Snow flakes 

                                        

                                                   More snow flakes... P.S. that's Emily and Ashlyn! ;o)

 

                                               

                                                               Our Christmas Tree!!!

Our first Christmas in Kenya we didn't have any ornaments for our tree, so we made some. This is one of them... We used soda caps, beads, and ribbon to make them... I love how creative we were!!  

Our stockings! :o) 

I hope you enjoyed looking at all the pictures!!! Have a Great Christmas Time!

By Sara Anne

Zach's big adventure

Both my brothers!

  This is one adventure Zach would have, probably,  rather gone without, but he didn't really have a choice. On Monday Zach started having pain in his stomach, and it just got worse and worse throughout the day. At midnight, mom and dad took him in to the hospital (about an hour and a half away), because the pain kept increasing. Poor, little Zach had appendicitis, and early Tuesday morning they did the surgery to take out his appendix.

 Now, Zach and mom are going to be in the hospital up till Saturday, and everyone, here at home,is missing them:-)  I miss him coming into my bedroom and saying, "Ashlyn, you're the best big sister ever.";-)

On the way to the hospital today, we stopped at Domino's Pizza, which, by the way, just came to Kenya, and today was actually their opening day.:-) That's why you see Zach holding a Domino's balloon. Poor guy, we brought two pieces of pizza, for mom to try, and he couldn't eat any; All he get's to eat, for now, is apple juice and yoghurt.  I don't know how I would survive,  not being able to eat chocolate or such.(I may not;-)

Yesterday and Today we went to see Zach in the hospital.

This is on the wall, right next to zach's bed....I loved it!

I love this picture of him, so I just had to put it up.;-)
Isn't he cute?....handsome I mean(he hates when I call him cute:-)
But, I wouldn't be a true big sister if I didn't embarrass, 
him every once in awhile.:-)

By - Ashlyn Elaine