From our home to yours...we wish you a very Merry Christmas!!! We have enjoyed some amazing times of visiting these last few days with various people, both church and non-church folks. Yesterday (Monday), we went out for lunch with Walter and Chepina and their two adult children, Walter and Jenny. We had a wonderful time, eating great food and visiting for close to three hours...we will miss that family so much...they are so special.
After our visit with them we headed over to Saul and Oralia's house as they had invited us to join them for supper and the evening on Christmas Eve. We enjoyed a great time with them, including that the kids got to see Roxie (our former dog) one last time before we head back to Canada. They gave the kids and us some gifts and we thanked them again for their friendship.
(Andrew with his favourite dog...Roxie...)
Normally the tradition around here is that people stay up past mid-night to celebrate Christ's birth...we only lasted until about 10:30...
The first thing this morning the kids checked out what was in their cool stockings (thanks to Auntie Nancy for helping the kids make them when you came to visit in November). After a huge breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon we proceeded to read the Christmas story and spend some time in prayer, giving thanks to God for his blessings. Then the kids opened their gifts from the Reimer Grandparents and Uncle Jake and Auntie Darlene...thank you so much for those blessings...the kids were pretty pumped. We have decided not give them anything from us now because we won't have room for much on the way home...they will get these gifts when we arrive back in Manitoba.
After opening gifts we zipped over to the church for a Christmas Day service...and then we said "goodbye" to a number of those dear folks whom we won't see again before we leave. After church we again zipped home to go over to Antonio and Tanya's house as they had invited us over for lunch (actually they invited us for brunch but we re-arranged for lunch). We had a great time connecting with them for a couple of hours as well...and I appreciated the chance to spend some quality time talking with Antonio, something I had not done a whole lot as of yet. He made the lunch, including a special salsa that he had made specifically for me because he heard that I liked hot sauce...I didn't disappoint him...I heaped it on to my taco and they applauded...I may pay for it later but it was a lot of fun.
The rest of the afternoon we hung out at home and played games and relaxed. Tomorrow we continue with the job of cleaning the house, organizing, packing and so on...it will be a busy couple of days before we leave on Saturday morning.
Have a great evening,
Gerald
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