Elise’s Christmas Concert

It just dawned on me that I didn’t post any pictures from Leesy’s final Christmas concert with Rock Hill High that Jeff & I went to last Thursday night.  It was beautiful and sweet and so much fun.  The first half was beautiful classical music, where they wore their long dresses and tuxes, and they sounded so pretty.  The second half they all came back out in their tacky Christmas sweaters and sang fun songs, including several selections from “White Christmas.”  That’s Elise on this end of the back row, in the green sweater.  What a fun evening.100_8791

Afterwards, with her friend Breana.  Good times, for sure…100_8798

Mallory & Clara’s Church program

Last Sunday night was Mallory and Clara’s Christmas pageant at the Clover ARP church.  SO cute.  We got there too late to get great seats, and my camera batteries died after I took exactly one picture, but here is that one.  Mal & Clara were both angels.  Mallory is on the left side of the stable in back, and Clara is on the right side, looking down :-).  The program was so good.  That church has a huge children’s ministry, & has attracted many young families with children Mal & Clara’s ages, so that was just such fun to watch all those kids.
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Afterwards, before we headed over to partake of the yummy potluck dinner the church provided.  It was a special evening.IMG_20151213_175301

Narroway

What a great time Meg and I had Wednesday night when we went over to the Narroway Theater in Fort Mill, to see their production, “The Real Story of Christmas.” I had heard of the theater, but had never been to any of their plays, and it was amazing. We chose not to eat the meal they offered with the dinner theater, but probably will try that next time – and there will definitely be a next time! No pictures were allowed during the performance, and I didn’t use the flash even at other times, so this view of a few of the many lit Christmas trees they had is a little blurry. They just did such an amazing job of staging the whole event, though.

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Meg & I after the program, pausing with one of the cast members.  It was interesting talking to her about her participation in the play.  Just a wonderful night celebrating the real meaning of the season…100_8784

Bethany’s Christmas Program

Tuesday night was Bethany Elementary’s Christmas program, so I went out for that.  Unfortunately Larne Elementary’s was at the very same time, so Jeff went to that, and I had to miss June singing with her third grade chorus.  He said they did a great job, though, as did the kids at Bethany.  First to perform was the fourth and fifth grade choir, and they sounded really good.  That’s Mallory with her hair pulled back (she was going straight from the performance to Nutcracker rehearsal), behind the microphone.
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The second part of the show was the second graders presenting How the Penguins Saved Christmas.  Here is our very favorite penguin of them all.  They were so so so so cute.  Good evening…100_8774

Hornets Game

What a great time we had Monday night, when Jeff & I went to watch the Charlotte Hornets, in a huge victory over the Detroit Pistons, courtesy of the tickets the kids got Jeff for his birthday last month. The tickets were absolutely spectacular – we’d never been so close to the floor. We were fired UP. This is during the player introductions. So much fun.
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I will forever be spoiled to sitting in the upper deck, or even in the top of the lower level.  It was so much fun just watching the players interact with each other.  Just one of the funnest evenings we’ve had in a while.
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Clover FUMC Christmas Pageant

What a good night Sunday was, when we attended our first Christmas pageant of the season – June and Mason at our church.  This is dress rehearsal, which is why Jackie is up on the stage gathering garland, and the kids are singing a few secular songs, before they go change into their costumes for the Nativity.  That’s Mason right in the middle in front of the tree, sort of facing to the right, and June is the first choir member on the left, singing big out of her book.  She was so proud to have that song book 🙂IMG_20151206_165756

Our sheep with curly horn. Meg made the horns for us – she is such a lifesaver. It was a good, good night.
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Thursday Morning at Church

This picture is actually a good bit darker than it looked on my phone. Anyway, this year for our Advent service to the church, Meg and I are changing out the greenery in the windows every week. She came over to the house Thursday morning & we went out picking creeping cedar, and then headed to town. As it turned out, the holly still looked pretty in the windows from the week before, so we just left it there and threw away the dried out cedar from the week before, and added what we brought. We thought they turned out pretty.

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I left Meg finishing up in the sanctuary, & headed downstairs to help Charlotte serve at the luncheon she hosts every year for a couple of the older adult Sunday school classes.  I had every intention of getting pictures of every table, but got busy, and this is the only picture I took of the entire event.  It was lovely and delicious, and everyone seemed to have such a nice time.  It was a good day.IMG_20151203_121648