We started out our program wishing my granddaughter a Happy Birthday. Her Great-Grandmother, my mother, brought her a nice big sheet cake decorated with her favorites, horses, to share with everyone for the occasion.
For our Christmas Party we celebrate with finger foods and goodies galore...
Our program begins with the reading of the Christmas story in both German and English...
Then we had members share stories of personal memories of Christmases past and also stories of German beginnings of Christmas traditions that we all celebrate now.
Joel and Karen shared their childhood memories of visiting their grandparents on Christmas. The apron that Karen is wearing is reminiscent of her grandmother's apron and has her grandparents picture on it. The told of standing on that very stool and reciting passages for their grandparents. Then the grandmother would fill her apron with oranges and candy and they would all get to pick their treats from it.
We all stood and sang Christmas songs in German and/or English.
Rachel shared with us the Certificate of Appreciation that she received at the Kansas Round Up.
And then, what all the children had been waiting for... Santa! The children seemed to be a bit shy this year. They hurried up as Santa called their names and then scurried back to their chairs, often moving so fast they were but a blur on my camera.
Santa stuck around and helped with the drawing for the door prizes but had to go tend to his reindeer. Children were called up on to help with the fund raiser drawing.
It was wonderful to see the families that were able to make it, and we had cooperative weather this year for travel. Here's wishing everyone
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
and
HAPPY NEW YEAR
from the
Golden Wheat Chapter AHSGR
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