Our Holiday Trip

This was our first Christmas in about 13 years where we were not with family. We celebrated Christmas here (the day after the Posada) let the kids play and then set out on a trip to southern California. The brief summary is that we drove for 1.5 days and got to San Diego, spent 2 days there and then spent New Years in Joshua Tree National Park. We then drove back here and got back on January 2nd.

We were pretty psyched to be able to take the holiday time and see these new areas of the country. (New to us at least). While we were gone, Heartwood celebrated the New Years here with a party and games. I'll let one of the other bloggers here tell you about it... :)

If you are interested in the details, then you can read about the trip here: New Year's Trip to California

Happy New Year.

Heartwood's Christmas Posada 2007

Christmas Eve we had a 3 house Posada with Hors d'œuvres (That's hard to spell) served at Eric and Laurie's and then over to Sue and Dave's for Soup and the main course and then over to Liz's for deserts and coffee.

Lots of smiles and laughter. The food was great. And of course...Pictures here to follow.
At Eric and Laurie's:





Nicely Done Kelly!!!




At Sue and Dave's:







At Liz's:

Heartwood Solstice Bonfire

Saturday Night we headed up to the bonfire pit just up the hill from the cluster. Not everyone was there at 7pm. I wandered in with a few other people, kids and dogs around 8:30 (I think). I ended up staying till around 10 or so and Jen Kelly and I put out the fire and headed home.

Happy Holidays... Happy Solstice.

Columbine Christian's Christmas Pageant

Last Night was the last night to see the Columbine Christian School's Christmas Pageant. A number of the Heartwood kids were in it and they did a superb job. They even had to cover for a technical glitch that suddenly stopped all the music. India and Nichol had to ad lib few about a minute... I bet it seemed like an eternity to them..

A few pictures for you to see them in action..

Holiday Party

Sunday we had a holiday party here at heartwood cohousing. This is an annual event and it starts off with people performing songs and playing musical instruments. Many of the kids here took voice lessons every Wednesday after school. So we had a parade of songs both group and individual.

We also had songs played on the Piano and Violin by a couple of the kids as well.

Then ( and not necessarily in this order) some of the adults with talent got up and played songs on the guitar and piano topped off with a performance by a group of three guys here who got together and played the violin, guitar and flute.

You think we're done yet? Nope. The evening went on to include a sing-a-long that just wandered through a dozen or more christmas carols. Does anyone really know the words to the "Twelve days of Christmas"