The Kummers' Christmas Together

Christmas 2010!

"For my eyes have seen Your salvation which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel." (Luke 2: 30-32)

The joy of commemorating Jesus Christ's first advent into this world to be our Savior was made even more special by Alison and Hannah's coming home for Christmas. This was made possible by some special gifts by our family and those who support us in our work at the Black Forest Academy. Thank you, and thank you Lord for Your indescribable gift!

One of the fun things we did together was to drive to the city of Frieburg (about 40 min. away) to go Christmas shopping and to see the Christmas market.

Most of what we did together was to hang around the house (dorm) together. It was a great family retreat.

Alison and Hannah helped lead singing at our church's Christmas Eve service.

For Christmas dinner we all worked together to prepare the meal!

We had sweet potatoes, turkey, stuffed tomatoes, creamed onions, green bean casserol, stuffing, and corn pudding.

Alison giving us some swing dancing instructions:

Even an ole dog can learn some new tricks.

Christmas Season Begins

December at BFA was an exciting time of Christmas celebrations and anticipation of Christmas break. Here below are pictures of the Christmas concert, which all of our Liel Dorm kids were involved in. See if you can pick them out!



The guy in the middle is G.I.


Our Laura in the middle.



Ira




The whole middle school choir

Here we are getting our Christmas tree from a farmer, "Zigfried" who lives down the street from the dorm.

And decorating our house for the season.

And making Christmas cookies!

The Mindeks, the family that substitutes for Sue and I on our weekends off, singing a song in Bosnian at our dorm Christmas party.

The dorm kids and the Mindeks made special crafts for Lauren, our RA, and for Sue and I. They presented them to us at our dorm Christmas party.

Our eight 8th graders served as waiters at the High School Christmas Banquet.

Here is our resident High Schooler, Marshall, with his date Lizzy, at the banquet.

Ester and Michael below are Liel dorm alumni and very dear to Sue and I. They were in the dorm the three years that we served as substitutes at the Liel dorm. They are now seniors.

Here we are modelling our new Liel Dorm sweatshirts!

Laura and G.I.

November Snow

A Great Surprise!

We were thrilled to wake up one mid November morning to find several inches of snow! We have had snowy weather off-and-on since then. The snow was a welcome diversion to the school and dorm routine and made us all start thinking about Christmas.

Here's one of my (Bob's) friends, a "Cincia Allegra", the name of a species of chickadee in Italian. Sorry, I don't know what it is called in German. It is most likely not as romantic sounding as the Italian version!

Luke, you wouldn't!

Kaelah well armed!

An after school snack on a snowy day.

The Saturday after our first snow we took the kids from our dorm up to the village of Marzell to go sledding. Marzell is the location of two of BFA's other dormatorys, "Sonne" and "Blauen". Marzell is about a 1000 feet in elevation higher than our town and gets quite a bit more snow than where are dorm is located. Behind the Sonne dorm is a small ski slope which is great for sledding. Here are some pictures of our kids.