Consecrated to Christ: January 2016

We had a blessed 2015, with lots happening all through out the year. Here are some pictures from December.

The month started out with my cousin Rebekah flying to Denver to spend a few days with us and to work at Operation Christmas Child for a day.

Here's our group after working at OCC

We enjoyed playing music together, especially Christmas music.

One Sunday, Joy and Joanna's sister Ranae and her boyfriend were visiting Randy and Joy's family. It was nice to see them again.

That week, we celebrated Joanna's graduation from highschool!! She is so excited to be done!

Joanna and her party food.

Joanna and I - close friends and sisters <3

One day this month, I had the privilege of babysitting for some friends. Judah and Avi were fun to babysit!

On December 12th, was my violin recital. It was a lot of fun to play with my teacher. She has taught me so much this past semester. I look forward to learning from her more.

Here is a video of the two songs I did with my teacher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwFqWvgcA-I&feature=youtu.be

Mrs. Ong and I afterwards

Later that evening, we went to a friend's church for their Christmas program.

Two of my dear friends, Jenny Bell, and Natalie Heppner

Before Christmas, we got SNOW! A lot of it!

A pretty sunset one evening

We went to a Christmas party the week before Christmas.

Yummy chocolate!

Lots of mornings lately, we have had beautiful fog and frost!

The Sunday before Christmas at our church, we had a Christmas program for the parents of the kids who come to church. We had 20+ kids come for the program, and several parents.

All the kids singing

Covering pretzels with my sister Elizabeth one evening

-CHRISTMAS WEEK WITH FAMILY-

-Playing music-

-Playing games-

-Playing ping pong-

-Looking at photo albums-

-More games by the fire-

-Nieces and nephews smiling for a picture-

-Grandpa playing legos with Charissa-

-Playing Dutch Blitz-

-My dear brother Jason and I with our instruments-

-Grandma and Jewelyn-

On Christmas Eve, a bunch of our family went to the mountains. One van went just to drive through the mountains and enjoy the scenes, and the other van went to go snow-shoeing.

-My dad with Jason and Karen-

The van that had the people going snow-shoeing in it, had some problems with a slick uphill road, so at one point five of us had to push the van. We got the van rolling, and one person at a time ran ahead and jumped into the moving van. The last two people pushing got way behind and couldn't catch up fast enough to jump in, so they walked quite a long ways!