Caribbean Cruise Photos

I'm just going to post photos of a fun trip!

Holiday Recap

Everyone loves the Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert and this year was no exception. It was more tender because it's Karl's last one, and the last time we will be guaranteed tickets! The guest stars were the Sesame Street Muppets: Big Bird, Elmo, Bert & Ernie, Cookie Monster and the Count, to name a few. It was different than the usual concerts, one part being that children age 5 and older were invited to come. This photo is from the "mini" concert they do after the Music and the Spoken Word on Sunday. At the end they invited all the muppeteers on stage and the choir & orchestra sang "God be with you 'til we meet again". These guests had tears streaming down their faces. It happens over and over again, the Spirit touches these guests and they feel something and in some way they are changed. Great Grandma Betty with Rex and Dane at the annual "Grandma Tobler Christmas Dinner". We held it in the activity room at her apartments. It was a great location, and we had the usual white elephant exchange. A few weeks before Christmas we posed for a casual family photo. This is us. Rob and Jill made a customized village shop for our collection. They disassembled the original and inserted a bed with pillows and a foot protector, a sale sign and renamed it. Very clever. I made 5 (simple) quilts for the girls, I started work on them this summer, but despite my good intentions, I still ended up finishing (quilting and hemming) them all the week before Christmas. I think they like them, I was a little worried that they are too young to appreciate it. ...Time for a long winter's nap.