Christmas in the desert….

better late than never right?! Geezz can’t believe it has taken me till February 4 to post pictures from Christmas! I wanted to still do it so we have the memory for later and to share with those of you who still care to see pictures from our Christmas & New Years 🙂

We had a wonderful Christmas considering it was our first on this side of the world. We were able to spend Christmas Eve with new friends that we have made over here for a party, Christmas caroling and “white elephant” gift exchange. Christmas eve night the Remkes and their 3 girls spent the night so we could do stockings and breakfast at our house in the morning! We had quite the breakfast feast and were blessed with lots of gifts to open. It was a blessing to get to spend Christmas with our friends who feel like family since it was the first time for either of us to be away from family. (which we missed dearly of course) We enjoyed roast, potatoes, and homemade rolls for dinner at the Remke’s house Christmas night & had another sleep over at their house and then I had a local family over for tea & Christmas sweets on Monday which included showing them parts of Christmas Joy!… I love when the celebrations continue for several days!

Christmas Eve party with sweet freinds

Christmas Morning… we had crapes (drew & jord’s Christmas breakfast tradition), coffee cake (my family’s tradition), and Orange Julius (chase & I’s tradition) for breakfast, opened stockings & gifts with the A/C on to make it feel cold! It was a great morning!

Other Christmas/New Year’s activities: Pecan Pie for dessert on Christmas, my dear local friends enjoying learning about Christmas for the first time! (hope to be able to explain it better in Arabic next year!), dinner with Chase to celebrate the new year, 3rd annual Christmas craft party with Jord & other ladies out here, & New Year’s spent drinking tea and watching the water/firework show in Dubai on TV- it was quite the show- they were trying to out do Time’s Square!

again sorry for the delay in posting these! Hope you enjoy! Thankful that the Lord sent Jesus to be our King and that He was born, lived a perfect life, died and rose again so that we can rejoice and have life in Him!

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