Christmas Caroling & Christmas Party

Trinity is blessed to have the most wonderful 1st & 2nd grade teacher ~ Mrs. Sprengeler! She is full of energy and truly loves teaching every single child! Every year she takes the first and second graders caroling around downtown Boone! We ended up going to 17 places:

1. Spring Green Lawn Care
2. Fareway Warehouse

3. KWBG Radio (They got to sing on air!!)

4. Peterson & Houston

5. Hy-Vee

6. Boone County Hospital

7. Mrs. Sprecher (former Room Grandma)

8.Fareway Grocery Store

9.Patterson Dental

10. Walmart

11. Kruck Plumbing

12. Library

13.Sherriff's Office

14. Boone Courthouse (Grandma Donna)

15. Eastern Star
16. Courtyard Terrace
17. Mirror Image

It ended up taking us 4 hours to do all 17 places ~ but it was so fun to see how much everyone loved having us come and carol! When we got back to the school it was time for the Christmas Party! The kids had so much fun doing their Secret Santa gifts and having cookies and Hot Cocoa for snack!

And as we were leaving Emma showed me her Snow Globe she made....

Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved. Acts 16:31

Christmas Programs

The Trinity K-2 Chior was asked to sing at the Annual Ecumenical Christmas Concert that supports Habitat for Humanity. It was held at the Boone High School Sunday Dec. 6th ~ we really enjoyed it and it was such a neat experience for the them!

Friday December 11 was Emma's Trinity Christmas Program * Ring out the Good News * Emma has been taking piano lessons so she was able to play a short piece before the program started and did a great job!

Here are a few verses they had to memorize as a class for the program:

Above all the roar of the cities, And over the hills and the dells, With a message of peace to the nations, Ring the beautiful Bethlehem bells.

We've got some earth shattering news!

If you had the best news in the world what would you do with it?

Emma was also finished with her memory work for the year so she was chosen to say an additional verse..

Again, Paul writes in Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were sinners, Christ died for us."

Some of the songs they sang were...

"O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"

"God Loves Me Dearly"

Carol Medley "Silent Night', "The First Noel", "Hark the Herold", " O Come all Ye Faithful" & "For He alone is Worthy"

"Shout to the North"

"Ring out the Good News"

"Joy to the World"

They always do such a wonderful Christmas Program and the message was so clear ~ If you had the best news in the world what would you do with it????

Sunday December 20th the girls had their Sunday School Christmas Program! We are so fortunate to belong to a wonderful Church!

Jaxson, Lauren and Hannah

Emma had another speaking part at her Sunday School Program:

"When the shepherds heard all this wonderful news their fear dissappeared, they hurried to find their savior, and when they found him, in a manger, as the angel had said they would, Joy filled their hearts."


I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:10-11

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Nothing is impossible with God. Luke 1:37

Day after Thanksgiving.....

The day after Thanksgiving Jason and I took the girls and a friend (Emma brought Alexa and Lauren brought Hannah) to Polar Express at the IMAX Theatre in the Science Center in Des Moines. It was awesome!

After the movie we drove thru Starbucks and got hot cocoa to take with us as we drove through Jolly Holiday Lights.

Great event for a great cause! We are so blessed to have the opportunity to do these fun things with the girls!

For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Colossians 1:15

Thankful

Thanksgiving always reminds us to be thankful. I am happy to say I have many things to be thankful for!!

While we were celebrating Thanksgiving with family we gathered in the living room before we ate and Emma and Madison said a prayer, then we all went around the room and said what we were thankful for! There were a lot who said family, my nephew Mason said food and water..and later while we were eating lunch he said "shelter, I should have said shelter too"! Love it!

As I looked around the room I realized I was most thankful that, for as long as I can remember we have always celebrated Holidays together. Lunch at noon. No invitations. Anyone is welcome. I am also very fortunate to have all of my grandparents. And my girls have all of their grandparents. My Grandma and Grandpa Lingren are the staple of all our Holidays. I am very grateful for them! I am very BLESSED!

If you asked each grandchild who was there favorite, each one guaranteed would tell you they are! They have a way of making each grandchild feel special. There door is always open. There is always an open invitation to their house! And of course grandma's chocolate chip cookies! I hope my grandchildren think of me that way someday!

Here are a few more pictures from Thanksgiving.

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever. Psalm 118:1

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

We picked out our Christmas Tree a few Sunday's ago-a big 9ft Fraser Fir tree and it is beautiful! We absolutely LOVE Christmas ~I get my Christmas decorations out right after Halloween! "The earlier the better " is our motto for getting our Christmas tree,! As soon as we see them out we make our plans to go get one! After we got it set up, the girls and I did a Gingerbread House. This year was extra fun as the girls were able to decorate by themselves!

Here are some pictures of the girls decorating the tree and putting the star on top.... Happy Holidays!!

One last thing. Emma finished her memory work for the entire year!! It is such an accomplishment and we are so very proud of her!!

God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son. John 3:16