Every year in Palo Alto they have a Christmas Creche exhibit set up for about a week in one of the stake centers. For Family Home Evening, Chris and I went to the Creche exhibit. They did not want pictures taken inside, so this is our only picture. This large creche (nativity) was set up outside the stake center. I was amazed that each Creche was unique. There were many shapes and sizes made from a variety of materials, and they came from all over the world.
Buying our Christmas tree! Buying a Christmas tree in a parking lot is still a foreign and strange concept to Chris. In Oregon, you go cut your own Christmas tree. In the parts of the country that do not have a nearby forest with perfect Christmas trees, we have to get our Christmas trees brought in on trucks and sold in a parking lot :)
We no longer have access to a truck, so we had to be a little more creative this year in getting our Christmas tree back to our apartment. My car definitely needed to be vacuumed after this.
We decorated our tree with the few decorations we have. Our tree looks exactly like it did last year, because we didn't have any new decorations this year. Next year though, we'll have a few new ones (thank you after-Christmas clearance sales).
Chris is placing the star on the tree, the final touch.
If at first you don't succeed...
Try, try again. It took some effort, but we finally got the star on straight :)
