Goodnight friends and family!!      

                  MERRY CHRISTMAS!!                                                                      Don't forget the reason for the season!!

How is everyone this time of year? Cold? Ya, I know what you mean....Just kidding! :P Well I don't feel to bad for you all because you could just hop on a plane or two or three and come see me! :) I would love that! (hint, hint) 

For some reason this year doesn't feel as much like Christmas as it did last year. My hypothesis is that last week we had GBI (Grenada Bible Institute) It was an amazing week by the way.We dug deep into the workings of Grace and the Beatitude by Eugene Summers and learned more about the Holy Spirit and  Worship by Ken Gehman. They were both great speaks and great examples of living what they preach. But back to Christmas... :/ I was in the spirit when we had our Christmas Program with school and a staff Christmas Banquet, but GBI kinda got me back out of the mood. So it kinda came as news at the beginning of this week that Friday was Christmas Day! But its all good. (it doesn't take much to get back into the spirit) 

In other news..we started Holiday from school the 11th and we go to the 4th. Natalie went back for Christmas. So it's just me and Amanda at home. We have kept pretty busy though! The first week as you know we had GBI and then this week we have been busy baking cookies, cleaning inside and outside the house, caroling, having friends over, going out to eat with friends, and running up to a green house and coming back with a poinsettia (planed purchase) and a herb garden (unplanned purchase). 

It was kinda a long walk to and from the greenhouse thankfully shorted but a kind lady who gave us a ride half way. But my arms were hurting bad enough by the time we got home. 

 Its home on a old piece of steps right outside our door that way I can keep a close eye for any kind of trouble. I have Basil, Rosemary, Parsley seasoning peppers and two mystery plants the gardener gave me. The one she gave me a name for but I forgot it. I never heard of it before ...wondering if she used its Grenada name....and the next one she told me she didn't know the name for....so ya!

 This is our dear poinsettia that we got up their as well.


So anyway it looks like beach volleyball , visiting and spreading holiday cheer, and more Christmas caroling  and Christmas day serves coming up so it looks pretty fun.... Not sure but next week will prolly get a little boring. I have a little bit of school work to do but not to much. So I think i will be ready for school when it comes.  :) 

Thought i should let everyone know that my family came down here. AND it was amazing!! It was so fun to let them meet my school kids, staff, friends, church, community, and different highlights of the island. Unfortunately i didn't take many pictures so you will have to ask Amber if you want to see any. But here is a family picture that we took while visiting a old resort that never got of the ground...

Thought i would put a little bit of school on here yet before I go. The last month before school let out was kinda crazy for 3 or 4 Fridays in a row they were all abnormal. Our field trip involved visiting a few business one of which was a potter which was SO cool. One kid asked if it was magic and in truth it looked a little like that. The man had skill! He could whip out something in a few mins. After that we went to a part before going up to two forts to look around eat lunch and play games. It was a very fun day. Another Friday was spent caroling at a grocery store and the last one eating pizza and playing games the day after the Christmas program for a Christmas party. It was a lot of fun but it was so good to have all of that over with! And the kids were getting tiered of school. Now just hope they don't forget everything they learned behaviorally and academically over their Holiday and will be exited about the next Trimester. 
Here are a few picture that I have....

    getting ready to go down on the truck... for our field trip.

   a seamstress or seamster ?

    having a snack top Kenton, Josiah, and Kerrianna bottom(faces you can see) Cadissa, Jaden Neptune, Trey Martin, Kenton. and Josiah.

 Kerrianna pushing someone on the swing.

 Trey trying the monkey bars

 The pottery man, Bottom Anton (1st grade) amazed at the mans skills

      almost finished

       at one of the forts

    having lunch before leaving. they were having a dog party. Something Kerrianna. Its were you throw in all your snacks and then have a party together with them.

 bottom singing at food land a grocery store.

quick random picture not sure if i put this one on my blog yet or not but this is Kerrianna, she was so tired the one day that during class she fell asleep AS she was getting ready to write down an answer in her book. A moment before i had her answer a question to see if i could keep her awake. She gave the right answer but her eyes were already rolling back into her head! 

CHRISTMAS PROGRAM!!!

Well anyway that is kind of what my life was consisting. Well I guess i will rap it up and which you all (yes i know its belated) Merry Christmas! and here is one last pic. that we took on Christmas morning. 

                                                                                                  Love, Crystal

L to R: Miss Sharon, Lori, Amanda, me, Ramona, Shivani, and Stacy