Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 聖誕快樂! Sheng Dan Kuai Le!!
So, What did Christmas Break looked like for us this year? We weren't on the beach and we weren't on the Great Wall!
This year we stayed close to home since I am 36 weeks pregnant!
We spent LOTS of time together just the two of us (we realize that that part of our relationship is over) AND we enjoyed every minute of it!

We opened some presents:

We helped with an outreach at one of the local Chinese schools here in Taipei:

(We worked with a group of 3 MS/HS kids from our school and taught two English lessons about Christmas. We shared with them the meaning of some of the symbols of Christmas time, made an angel craft, decorated sugar cookies, and played a present game. We then went and hosted a special education Christmas party...for their special education department. There were about 90 kids I think. Here is my friend making his Christmas card:

We couldn't really communicate, but I do know that he kept asking if he could kiss me :)
It was fun to see their faces light up as we shared along side them making crafts, decorating cookies, singing, and opening gifts:

we made and decorated some Christmas cookies:

We went to a Christmas Eve service at our old church (which we waited 40 minutes in line for just to get in the church and then we didn't even have a seat...so we watched it on tv in overflow seating). But it was great to see SO many locals pouring into the churches:

We watched the Nativity together and read the Christmas story all cuddled up with hot chocolate in hand.

We went to our church on Christmas morning to worship:

We ate Korean for lunch with some dear friends!
We ate a big ole American style dinner (bacon cheeseburger and fries) with other friends:

We went shopping and had a date day down by Taipei 101:

And....we stayed up late, watched movies, played games, ate cookies, took naps, ate more cookies, etc. etc.

All in all, it was a WONDERFUL Christmas!