Thanks to...

Devon Beck, Michael Beck, Kassadi Snoke, Laura Kuebel, Patrick Kuebel, Justin Feine, Courtney DeVore, and Kyle Barrett from our youth group as well as Philip Daniels for helping with the Christmas Caroling at the Eastgate Nursing Home yesterday.

Thanks also to Nancy Ball for providing hot chocolate back at the church building after we finished caroling.

The residents really appreciated our bringing some Christmas cheer to them. We sang about fifteen different Christmas hymns, including Silent Night and O Little Town of Bethlehem. (We also sang Deck the Hall and We Wish You a Merry Christmas.)

Below is a video that Phil took during the after-Caroling Cocoa time. Only a few of the carolers remained.

A few words of explanation about the video:

1. The references to the left and right wings is to two hallways on the first floor of the nursing home. The left wing is where rehabilitation patients live. The right wing is where Alzheimer patients live. We were told not to venture down the left wing because residents there were recovering from bad colds and flus.

2. Kassadi's nickname is Bob, given to her by our own Jenn Evans, back when Kassadi was first walking and talking. Her response at the time was, "I not Bob," which is pretty much what she said yesterday over cocoa. (Today, little Michael K. calls her that!)

3. Michael insists that he can't sing, even though yesterday I could hear that wasn't true.

4. Be sure to watch for the moment at which Nancy Ball and daughter Devon Beck stuff marshmallows in their mouths to flash what might be described as "Michelin smiles."

5. I don't know why videos on YouTube, where this video is "parked" are slightly out of sync. But they're all that way these days, it seems.