The Sprinkel family is getting excited about Christmas. We miss our decorations (and at times snow), but we are trying to keep some of our traditions alive. We bought a very small Christmas tree and some ornaments, and Nicole made us some stockings out of Maasai blankets. One of the missionaries loaned us some lights and a few decorations, so it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas (except for the extremely hot sunny days, absence of snow, palm trees, and banana plants).
Some of the stores have lights up. A few of them have large Santa Claus figures that sing (I think one of them was singing "The Yellow Rose of Texas" the other day - which only makes sense here.) Everyone is starting to feel a little more festive, and we have been invited to more Christmas parties than we can possibly attend.
Grammy, Grandad and Uncle Matt are coming to visit in just a few days - we are incredibly excited about that. But mostly, we are glad to celebrate the fact that God loved us enough to come to earth, become one of us, so that we can have a loving relationship with Him!
Here are some pictures of us setting up the tree - Nate was more interested in a paper bag than decorating the tree.
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merry, mari christmas...glad you are starting to enjoy yourselfs a little...these are the best times of your lives...hope you are taking buches of pictures...your grand kids will want to know some day.
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