A Little More Christmas Cheer....

We held our second annual Christmas Eve church party on Monday evening.  During the afternoon we had enlisted the young women to decorate the church and they had a lot of fun with it.  We had a women's choir that sang "Noite Feliz"  (Silent Night), Toby preached a little about the Savior and we watched a Christmas video and had refreshments.  I had put together little goodies bags for the kids that were a hit as usual.  We had cake and tons of soda and I think it was successful.  I had made the assignment to the Relief Society to bring four cakes.  I made one and on a whim asked the Elders to make one for back up.  The Relief Society brought drinks.  We will work on delegation some more   We were told by many that we had started it too early (at 6pm) , but we are always concerned for people walking home in the dark.  So of course, we took a truckload home ourselves!  Here are a few pics of the day:

We had hanging snowflakes, stars and balloons.

The is our women's chorus.  I learned that you must have a DIFFERENT capulana
for each event.  I wanted them to wear the ones I had bought for the day
the branch was formed and I was told in no uncertain terms that we needed Christmas ones.

My Santa hat didn't fit too well, but I told them I was Mama Noel.  In Portugeuse that meant "the breast of Christmas". I meant to say Mae or mother Noel.  Anyway, as usual I blundered along
in my humiliation and hoped nobody understood me.  The treat bags were understood
by all!

Our decorators always looked for another photo op.

Some of the kids are holding special glow in the dark toothbrushes courtesy of a dentist
in Holladay, Utah.  I took the outside int he dark to demonstrate and they were
quite amazed by the light emitted from the brushes.  Surely that will make dental
hygiene more exciting for them.

Santa hats are a favorite everywhere.  I liked these two brothers in theirs.

These are the guards.  The Night guard, the day guard and the Sunday night guard.
They all put on a tie for the party, which I must say surprised me greatly and
asked for their picture to be taken.  It cracked me up.