Christmas Eve Eleven PM Service at First Presbyterian features the reunion of young adults who have returned home for the holidays and who are encouraged to reunite in the chancel choir section and provide voice for the Christmas Eve anthems. This year the choir director called a rehersal the week leading up to the Christmas Eve service, but once the dozen or so former members of the High School Choir gathered, he decided they would not reherse, just have dinner together and he'd select something with which they were familiar. And so it came to pass, the "Youth Choir" (ages 18-27) sung their anthem in worship and exchanged updates on their lives in the 'real world'.
We lingered long past midnight visiting after we had extinguished our candles having sung Silent Night to close the service. We drove home in two separate cars listening to the local Public Radio station's rebroadcast of the Christmas Blockbuster, an extended playing of ecclectic Christmas songs from Handel to the Kinks, interspersed with history and legends and factoids imbedded into the Christmas traditions. One tradition is that if you feed your pets by candle light before sunrise in Christmas Day, your pet will behave well all year. Grant fetched a Milkbone treat for Strider and lit a candle and after making the dog sit, he tossed him the treat while hold the burning candle in the otherwise darken kitchen. What can be the harm?
Parents and children, enjoying the late Christmas Eve atmosphere stayed up until 2 AM laughing and chatting. We were up late enough to hear the cold front roll down from Santa's North Pole, bring loud claps of thunder, bold flashes of lightning and tiny pecking sounds as the rain turned to ice and sleet striking the windows and leaves of the shrubbery. We retired to bed beneath the welcomed and strange turn of weather with dreams of a White Christmas and a plan to rise late to find what Santa had hauled down the chimney.
We lingered long past midnight visiting after we had extinguished our candles having sung Silent Night to close the service. We drove home in two separate cars listening to the local Public Radio station's rebroadcast of the Christmas Blockbuster, an extended playing of ecclectic Christmas songs from Handel to the Kinks, interspersed with history and legends and factoids imbedded into the Christmas traditions. One tradition is that if you feed your pets by candle light before sunrise in Christmas Day, your pet will behave well all year. Grant fetched a Milkbone treat for Strider and lit a candle and after making the dog sit, he tossed him the treat while hold the burning candle in the otherwise darken kitchen. What can be the harm?
Parents and children, enjoying the late Christmas Eve atmosphere stayed up until 2 AM laughing and chatting. We were up late enough to hear the cold front roll down from Santa's North Pole, bring loud claps of thunder, bold flashes of lightning and tiny pecking sounds as the rain turned to ice and sleet striking the windows and leaves of the shrubbery. We retired to bed beneath the welcomed and strange turn of weather with dreams of a White Christmas and a plan to rise late to find what Santa had hauled down the chimney.
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| Inga sips tea while viewing Mom open her gift |
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| Grant styles his Oregon Ducks cap |
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| Say "Cheese" = Sue gets a knowlege boost for her new hobby, cheese making |
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| Inga is bemused by her brother's gift clue |
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| Sue puzzles over the Suneson traditional rhyming gift clue |
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| Grant receives a set of Nerf Rifles to bring on to campus - it seems to be all the rage this year |
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| Inga suspiciously cracks open Steven Colbert's latest |
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| Sue has a good time trying to get through all of that bubble wrap |
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Grant & Inga
Targets of Dad's new Camera |
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| Inga studies rhyming clue after rattling a mysterious box with her name on it |
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| Inga connects the dots: Windshield Ice Scraper, Tire Pressure Gauge & Key Ring -It a new (used) Subaru gift from her Grandparents!! |
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