December 24, 2007

• Luminaries

  The second year after I got married we bundled the kids up into the car to do Christmas lights.  They promptly fell asleep and Rob and I had this fabulous romantic drive.

  It was Christmas eve, and we were just wandering around admiring light displays when we came upon a house with luminaries.  I was awed by them, and thought them beautiful.  We sat and just watched them for awhile, and then kept driving.  A few minutes later we came upon a whole culdesac full of them.  Every year since if at all possible we have gone back.  Some years its been raining, and some years Rob has worked, but when we can we go.  And once or twice in our old house we did them at our house.  We lived off a county road, up in the toolies, but all our neighbors slowed down very slow and admired them.

  The last two years its rained cats & dogs Christmas Eve, but this year its crisp and cold.  IN fact the gate has frost already on it.  So the kids and I dug out the supplies I bought yesterday in hopes we'd pull it off.  Rob brought sand for me.  The forecast called for clear, and we crossed our fingers.  We did about 45 of them, and they are so pretty.

  They remind us that Jesus brought the light to the dark world cold world.

  Jeremiah thought it was fun at first, but he quickly froze out.  The rest of them were enthusiastic until we ran out of paper bags (but not candles LOL). 

  So how do you make them?  A paper bag, a cup full of sand dumped into the bottom of it.  Light the candle, place in the sand in the middle of the paper bag.  And you turn something very plain into something very magical.

  

  Yeah the pictures are dark.  LOL It was dark!

  

  Umm Samuel took this one.  I guess its been quite awhile since I've trusted him with the camera...so tilt your head to view it.  *Snicker*

  

  And I love these next two...because that is how it really looked outside.  Just a tinge of face glowing from the candle.

  

  

  So  Rejoice the Light has come!  Merry Christ-Mas

   

   

   

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