This year, two young girls at Calvary Lutheran Church wrote and directed the children’s program. It was great!

Today was the youth Christmas program at Calvary Lutheran Church.

From the point of view of the driver. Matt, Pastor Kirsten’s husband, sat in the truck bed and rang the bell.
After the parade was over, the bell was unloaded.
I pulled off all the decorations.
By mid-afternoon, I was on my way to Adrienne’s in Rocklin to get ready for tomorrow’s adventure.

After work on Friday, I got Justin’s truck washed and met a crew at Calvary to load the bell for the Country Fair Parade tomorrow morning.
Then I parked the truck in Leone and Don Thorne’s back yard. A different group of people came over to decorate it.

9-1 pm: Bring your e-waste! I worked the early shift.Vehicles kept coming in a steady stream. I was surprised at the collection after a couple of hours.

I did the story-telling portion of Vacation Bible School this week. Last week, I covered empty cardboard boxes with plastic tablecloths that looked like stone walls and went on an Amazon shopping spree which included a realistic 14″ fire – how else would the bread bake?
Monday opening. We had a small group this year.
Tuesday: Mary and Martha. Martha works hard:While Mary watched movie trailers and ate popcorn. Not fair!
Wednesday: sometimes army-crawling or rolling under the pews was more interesting. Sigh.
Friday. The end.

Mary has a “balloon pregnancy” which will be popped and … there’s baby Jesus!

I’m helping Bob and Joann Batten at Calvary with the children’s Christmas program on Dec 24 at Calvary Lutheran Church. Joann wrote the story and Bob is working on many songs and solos. I’m working on the costumes – probably a dream job in another lifetime. This is the first of two Saturday morning rehearsals.

At the end of service:Then Amara came down the aisle:Just what Lisa needed to be mobile!