The Hackney Four 2008 Christmas Tree

Which looks remarkably similiar to the 2007 tree. I know...I know...one day I'll get a real tree!

Being all fancy and stuff with the ornaments

Advent

3rd Week of Advent - JOY

(A day late, but at least we remembered.)

Happy Birthday Jesus Party

Some shots from the Happy Birthday Jesus Party at church on Saturday.

First up was some crafts. Everyone needs a crown to celebrate!

Everyone!

Julio provided us with Christmas songs in Spanish. He wrapped with "Feliz Navidad" (Rachel's favorite), and it turned into a sing-along at that point.

Then the 4th & 5th graders acted out the Nativity story. Aaron as Joseph and Abbey as Mary. (Who else did you expect!)

And lest you think the fun and crafts were only for the kids....

It takes a village...

...to clean the sanctuary after a Happy Birthday Jesus party! It's neat to see everyone chipping in an working to make sure the church is in tip-top shape for Sunday worship. That and I really like messing with the time lapse video on my camera. :)

Out on the town

I tried to upload this last night after I got home, but YouTube was too slow and I was tired. Here's our ladies night out yesterday. Twenty-five women from our church went out for a kids-free dinner at Old Spaghetti Factory and then topped it off with hot chocolate from South Bend Chocolate Co. That stuff is rich!! We all had a great time. (Even if one of us knocked over the entire cup of hot chocolate as it was served. Couldn't even blame it on a kid!) Warning: The following video contains gratuitous shots of food!

Please forgive the unfortunate shot that is showing before you play the video. I've changed it and hopefully YouTube will update this morning.

Wordless Wednesday

Happy 3? Birthday!

Happy Birthday to the Hackney 4's favorite coffee-drinking, geocaching,
camera-toting, pink-guitar player!

Hope you have a great day Paul!