Creches & Carols 2012

Well, Creches & Carols is over again for another year.  Alan & I were in St. Louis during the week so we missed out on setting up the displays.  We spent most of the day at the church on Saturday though, greeting people and presenting some musical numbers.  He played the piano for a while and then we had a small "choir".  We just grabbed whoever was available at the time and sang some Christmas carols.  It sounded pretty good though.  It took five hours to take it all down and box it up.  Whew!  We were glad when that was done.  We had a good turnout though and felt good about it all.

Each room had a color scheme.  This was sort of the red room.  There were even some trees with red cardinals in them.

Don't you love those palm trees?  Corina made over 50 of them.  Remarkable!

Here is the "blue room".  I took this one so you could see what it looked like when we turned out the lights.

Here's one view with the lights back on.

The branch president's room was set up so that people could sit and watch a nativity video if they wanted.  There was also "Mr. Krueger's Christmas".

Here is a portion of the "gold room".  Gold sounds better than saying the "brown room".

Some of our younger members came to help.

Here is one of our live nativity Mary's.  Sorry if that looks wrong but Marys looks even worse.  Isn't she a darling little Mary?

Our elders were there to show the video and answer any questions people might have.

We started out with a trio.

Then we snatched up three men to join us.

This is Mary & Joseph with Baby Jesus and ---yes, while Joseph has baby duty, Mary has been busy with her digital camera.

Our children's area included the live nativity (with no animals) and a section with unbreakable nativity sets that could be played with.  Many of the little ones settled in there while their parents looked at the displays.  Everyone seemed happy with that arrangement.

Here are some of the Relief Society members who worked Saturday.  They are the ones who were there when we started clean-up.  Our little Joseph and Marys wanted to join us in the picture.  They were really troopers.