It is hard to believe that Christmas has come and gone. Our firsts Christmas in the mission field. Before we put everything away for next year, we thought we would give you a tour of our home at Christmas time. When we take the tree down, we will take a picture of all the little ornaments you sent with the grand children's pictures. They were the best part of our decorations.

Where do we start?

Well, no one needs to feel sorry for us. We had so many little packages to open. What a fun morning We had jello pudding to photos. We love all those photos. I know Christmas is all about giving more than receiving. I hope we gave to the people of Colombia, more than we received. What a great blessing to be here in the mission field. We have loved every day here.

Christmas morning breakfast.

We had a wonderful Christmas breakfast thanks to Rob and Holly. They sent us two packs of Williams Country Sausage packets. We were in heaven. We topped it with chopped hard boiled eggs and a cup of ecco. What more could we ask for.

Our first nativity.

This was our first nativity are pesebre in Spanish. We love this. We are sorry they didn't make it to you kids in really good condition. We took this to our Bogota Christmas party. At night it is just beautiful.

Jerusalem pesebre.

I love this little pesebre. At night, it is really beautiful with all its lights. On the back wall, you can see two beautiful little frames that Holly made with pictures of their family. The large frame has the gift that was made by the parents of one of our Peruvian missionaries. His parents traveled on a bus six hours to bring it to us. There is along story behind this photo. I will need to share it will you some day.

Palm pesebre.

This little pesebre was a gift to us from our missionary couple that returned home the first of the month. There is a type of palm tree that grows a big pod and inside are hard things like nuts, but you don't eat them. The people carve things out of these very hard nuts. We had never seen them, but as it got close to Christmas we saw a lot of them. We have this on our coffee table in the living room.

Our entry way pesebre.

When people enter our home, they are greeted with our hugh Christmas tree and on this side table our little pesebre.