An Alexander Christmas, a FL Christmas, a ...

Merry Christmas!!! We had a lovely time with all the immediate family there--except Jeffrey, sniff.

My interesting gift wrapenaciousness.

Our neighbor (MS JENE) receiving a Christmas Gift.

Joy, opening a gift from Jeffrey.

Mom, opening a gift from yours truly.

Daddy-O! HO HO HO! MERRRRRRY CHRISTMAS!

Paul, Myra and I went on a nice little hike or 2. Paul found a unique facial expression that keeps his nose somewhat warm.

Joy made cute little cookies, each one with a story. That made it difficult to eat them, but anyways...


Later, we traveled down to Florida to visit the grandparents. The weather is tremendous this time of year!
THATS IT FOR NOW!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR'S!!! (IT'S 30 min AFTER RIGHT NOW!) MORE UPDATES LATER...hehehe (so she thought...)

Christmas with Lupe!

hmmmmm...what?!!! huh!? I'm so confused...Mars??? wait, what's the floor doing above me? Ohhhhh, what's going on? Oh, it's morning....it's (yawn) really early. Ohhhh myyy. 5:30....soooo not happening... After my mother unearthed me at that ungracious hour of morning, I sat on the edge of my bed, desperately trying to figuire out what was up and what was down. Obviously, the corners of my mouth couldn't figuire that out, because I kept switching from crying to laughing and back! Anyways, we arrived at the Baptist Church in Dalton (that so graciously lent us their huge fellowship hall, and got it in order for rehersal. The children arrived, we ran through our rehersal, and we left. After getting home, I had a very ridiculosly short amount of time to wash my hair and get ready, (an hour), and we left to go prepare. The Christmas play went well, praise the Lord! I was able to get some pictures...I may post more later.

These two were scheduled to be in the play, but they had a trip to take, so they weren't there.
Sitlali and Saul.

Our main actress (who is very camera shy--I was lucky to get this one).
Bitia (pronounced Pa-tee-u)

Our crowd of about 90-100! (pretty good for us!!!)

Our angelita!!!

The great (but sleepy) shepherd Pablo!

Great Mago (King) Rafael.

Crazy Carlos the Shepherd (with Ivan in the back)

Ivan...trying to be ....uh, coy, or something...

Our very enthusiastic (ahem) angels.
Eddie and Omar.

The nuttiest of all the angels....Eddie.

Actors Genaro (Hen-ard-oh) and Socorro.

The mischeivious Ociel.

Carlos doing the motion for "king" (that yours-truly made up)

Unless you want trouble, don't put these guys together!
Pablo and Ivan

Actress Silvia the gorgemous...lol

Good police cop (in the play) Venicio.

Evil King Herod Jose
(that's not very scary...till he decides he really likes my "shiny, sharp" knife....ohhhh boy....)

My mother...demonstrating how to take the offering and what to do with the plate...no jk!!! she was helping the kids...Actually, she directed the entire thing....Bless her little heart!

What faces you make, Eddie!

The dear bro-in-law Jeffrey sent these lovely flowers to my mother....stand in awe and utter amazment at their regal beauty!!!

That's it for tonight! Enjoy!

DRAMA!

Welcome to Grand Central! Where can I direct you?...
To the Dalton Hispanic Mission Drama 2008? Why, certainly!

Yea, we're working with the kids on a Christmas play this year! Hooray! It's a lot of work, but I hope the Lord will bless it and be a definite part of it. The kids love to sing, so of course, that will be a vital part.

The drama is about a young orphan whose mother had instructed her to "find out what Christmas is all about." She is adopted by a rich family--that know NOTHING about the real meaning of Christmas. She meets a pastor and his wife (our real pastor and wife) and they tell her the true story of Christmas. I will post Rehearsal pictures and the real thing (if I can get them!) later.
Merry Christmas and much love to all!

FA-LA-LA-LA-LA, LA-LA-LA-LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I was innocently going about my business, when mother kindly informed me that I was "going to entertain for a Chaplain Christmas Party!"
Great.
Play. Violin.
Carols.
Be. Happy.
Right!
So, of course, I had to go get a costume.



This lady (Collette) pictured with me kindly led carols.










The evening was a success (I guess?!) due probably to my mother's lovely Kolatchy (or however that's spelled)! lol maybe not, but its a good guess, right?

This couple works with my parents and have hired me to work at their house. They are Paul and Bernice Andrus.















I thought the sunset was pretty.

A Quesenberry Christmas Tree Raising!

I was blessed to spend several days in TN with my cousin Martha. While her parents visited our grandparents in FL, we decorated! ... to the lovely serenading of Kenny G.!
We also visited the mall, where I got my picture taken with some random Santa Claus!

GATLINBURG!

Great sales, outlets, deals, Christmas shows...the list goes on!

Our dear friends Dave and Sharon Weaver invited our threesome up to Gatlinburg for some (hilarious) fellowship, shopping and "CHRISTMAS AT THE DIXIE STAMPEDE!" During which, Uncle Dave got to compete in a horseshoe throwing contest where the horseshoes were silk-covered toilet seats! Talk about funny...

Dear Uncle Dave with his medal!

I was also thrilled to get some good Christmas shopping in! The mountains, lights, and other views were fun and very refreshing!

We visited a really neat china shop and Christmas store!

A very expensive Dolly! $29,900!

Uncle Dave and Aunt Sharon waving at us!

interesting, to say the least...

One of the many -plexes we stayed in.

We also got to drive around and see some lights....