Saturday, December 29, 2018

Church


I love our church so much!  And I love how pretty it looks decorated at Christmas.  I took several photos during the Christmas season at church because of special events taking place.  Here they all are together.  :)


Megan and Hannah sang a solo on Dec. 16

Then the choir sang their Christmas Cantata that same day.


Chancel Choir Cantata on December 16, 2018

a very special service... A Light in the Darkness 

Hannah and Duretta sang a solo on December 28, 2018


Have missed 2 Sundays of this sermon series, but thankful they can all be found on YouTube!!

First United Methodist Church You Tube Channel



Friday, December 28, 2018

Hootenanny!


Dear Brian and Nancy (and family) invited our crew over for a fun filled evening of making music together - our very first hootenanny!  :)  We had a marvelous evening and can't wait to do it again!  Here are some photos and video from our time together.

Matt, Julie, Nancy

Laura, Brian, Candace

Matthew, Chiara, Brenda, Hannah, Brennain, Melina, Daniel





Chiara and Hannah


Nancy, Chiara, Brian














Here is an album with more photos.

And here is the full video from the evening (I haven't had a chance to upload individual songs yet...)


Family graduation ceremony


We had a fun and special event out here at Willis Creek Ranch during the holidays.  We decided to celebrate both Rojina and James graduations from college with a family graduation ceremony.  Since we have our very own President and faculty, we knew exactly how to do just that.  ;)

Then, to make things extra interesting, we ended up having a re-do of the ceremony!  We did it the first time on Christmas Day and it was wonderful with everyone present.  Sadly, something happened to my camera (actually to my SD card) and I lost all the photos I had taken and the video was corrupted.  :(  Thankfully, Jackson had been there to take photos, but we really, really wanted the video.  Sooooo... we decided on a do-over the following day.  It wasn't quite as in-depth, but we got the video without any trouble at all.  :)  

Here are photos of the very first commencement from Willis Creek University.   :)  

Anna was Grand Marshall

Julie and Kerry, faculty 

Our President  :) 

Our graduates (this time!)  Rojina and James


faculty presenting the candidates for graduation


Daddy and James



Daddy and Rojina


Rojina and Julie



Grandpa telling about his Presidential Medallion

Participants in the ceremony (Candace played the processional and recessional) 

Rojina and James

Rojina, James, Julie, Anna, Matthew

You can see more photos at this link (from the re-do day, as well).

And here is the re-do day video...  :)




Christmas Day

Here are some photos from Christmas Day.

Love these three so very much!
Jonathan, Brianna, Jackson

the 'kids' went out to the 40 acres to shoot 

Gathering around the table for prayer before Christmas dinner.




the 'kids' table was bigger than the 'adults' table.  :) 



I'm so happy about this whole family picture!!!  Priceless!!!

opening stockings together




Playing games and putting together a puzzle later in the evening




You can see a whole album of photos from Christmas Day at this link.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/williscreekranch/sets/72157689071501413

And here is a little video of the kids playing Coup.  Pretty fun game!