This is instead of my Monday Funny this week. If you click each picture it enlarges it.

I went to volunteer at the Nativity Celebration that the local stake of my Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) sponsors here every year. I only took picture of a fraction of all the Nativity sets, that people brought in from all over our stake (a stake is just an area that so many wards and branches are in, a ward is a certain number of people and up that meet in a building and branches are less people than a ward) off topic :P. I was told people brought in 997 Nativity sets to show, not all were members of our church and we loved having them participate, all were welcome (they take their Nativity sets home on Saturday after it closes.) We only asked the visitors to bring in a can of food for the food bank we chose. We had different choirs and bands and orchestras from different schools and Church choirs that came in to perform on Friday and Saturday. Member of our Church made refreshments too, no charge for the refreshments (hot apple cider and cookies, etc). It was fun. I wish the picture could be enlarged of the bottom left, it had roads and stairs to look realistic, so nice.

I was only there on Friday afternoon because I had to help Saturday on the alpaca farm. This Saturday will be his Christmas celebration with the alpacas. He will have some of the alpacas with costume reindeer antlers, refreshments and Santa for the kids to have pictures with (that one is a family member and they charge for the pictures) but like normal no charge for feeding the alpacas up close and personal, and chickens and peafowl, and he hopes they will buy something from his farm store to help with the cost of feed, processing the fiber into yarn, etc. I’ll try to remember to get pictures! Last year people were standing in line from the small pasture where the alpacas are, to the end of his driveway (which is about 6 car lengths). This year he got a very big connect 4 game the kids can play while standing in line to get into the pasture with the alpacas because he can only let so many people into the pasture at a time. It’s to keep the kids busy so their parents don’t go crazy, lol, hope that works out :P.