Almost after... Rachel couldn't speak for almost 3 minutes when she saw Mike. He hasn't changed his hair in years!
At our Christmas party with our friends, Rachel models the attractive red long underwear she opened. She looked great in them, huh?
Nicole with some Santa puppets. Unfortunately she didn't get to keep those. 10 month old Claire really liked them.
The much-wanted Chicken-dance-dancing Chicken. Oh-and the guy with the chicken is our friend Paul Mullens.
We all had a great time.
Hard at work decorating our graham-cracker gingerbread houses.
The finished product. Nobody would be surprised Nicole was thinking outside the box! She made a trailer house. My church roof was too heavy and fell in.
I just had to add a photo of Mike from the nativity, since he's usually holding the camera and is conveniently left out. He was a special narrator. :-)
Here we are in deep preparation for our nativity Christmas Eve. Even though I am just looking at some songs to sing, I really should be praying we could sing them nicely!
You can see we had lots of fun on Christmas morning removing the friendly lice we seem to find lots around here...
Here is a photo of the branch Christmas party we had on Christmas afternoon.
The girls and I spent the day in Shanghai, and had to check out the Ikea. Here is there festive pose in front of the lovely Christmas tree there in the store.
One day Rachel, Jay and Eli went with me to grab some Japanese noodles, and then we had a walk downtown where they have some big displays there for Christmas/New Year. It is an Olympic Theme, Of Course. There is also a display of 2 huge rats that look like cute mice. This is the year of the rat.
