Until Next Year

We made through. Christmas Village 2008 is behind us! Hallelujah! It's always a whole lot of work, but soooo very rewarding. All together our church made over $17,000 for missions and other causes, over $1000 of that from our little Wonderland Closet area!! Our best year yet!

It was a busy week, not much time for blogging. But here's some of the shots from this week:

Some of our faithful workers (Lisa, Jodi, and Sherry). We couldn't do it without them!! Thanks, gals and even a few guys that helped us out!!












Allison, starting to set up the Tie Table.












Allison's hard work . . . Beautiful! Unfortunately, it never lasts long!












Especially when people use it as a dog bed! Hello! That really is a dog in the middle of our tie table!!












Allison, picking up our nearly 30 balloons from Wal*Mart, almost flawlessly. I'm rather proud we remained very Christian despite a slight hitch, but it all worked out! Yay!
















Whoville's, a.k.a. Kid's Korner, booth and costumes looked so good! I loved their creative hair! We tied with them for Best Decorated Booth contest this year. Kudos to them for all their hard work . . . we know your pain!! :-P












Lampon Nhotshiri (our Asian pastor's wife) and I. Her hair was unbelievable. She's so clever!!
















The First Lady of First Church (Cheryl Becton), Allison and I.












I hadn't been in the door 5 minutes when Charity took all my "props" and made them hers, including my boots. Always, a little mommy!! She's a cutie!!