You might wonder what a 16 year old and a 2 year old have in common. You might be surprised to find out how much Matt and Josiah have in common. Lamborginis, basketball, and Matt's Itouch to name a few. Matt has been without his Itouch for a couple of months. I think it was harder on Josiah than Matt when it got crushed by 8500 pounds of Ford. They both are happy to have a new one!
We always go to Brian's parents on Christmas Day, after we spend the morning at our house opening presents. Brian gets us coffee every year on Christmas morning. It's a real treat that we look forward to.
We had a wonderful meal and then opened presents. The kids played Apples to Apples with Grandpa and then we watched a movie with him that had everyone laughing. Then we went home and the kids played ping-pong and Imagine if. We are thankful that we are so close to all of our family that we get to celebrate holidays with them. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! God Bless!
Wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas! Christmas morning was a special time for us. We read the Christmas story from Luke chapter two, and then we read our advent calendar. This particular advent calendar tells the Christmas story spread over 24 days. We started this tradition with this advent calendar on Sarah's first Christmas. Yes, it has survived 20 years! I collect advent calendars but this is by far everyone's favorite,(except maybe for Matthew, who prefers the one filled with candy)! I pray all of you have a wonderful Christmas as we celebrate the birth of our Saviour. Merry Christmas!
Christmas Eve is always spent at my parents house. This year everyone was there except Big Josh, Ted Dawne, Ella, and Lily. Keeri made it home from South Korea. My family hadn't seen her for about a year and a half. Josh had to work. It was our first Christmas without him. We missed him, but he really seems to like his job so we are happy for him. The kids had a great time.
It was the annual children's program, and Timothy was the Chief Shepherd and Joshua was one of the wise men. Timothy worked hard to memorize his line and he did great! Joshua had to lay down his gift before Josheph, Mary, and the baby Jesus. He also did well, especially since he doesn't enjoy performing in front of an audience. Josiah opted out of the sheep role for this year. There's always next year.
I think we wore Casey out. This is how she looked soon after we got to grandma's house. I think she saw all the kids and just decided to fake she was tired so they would leave her alone!
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It's one of my favorite holidays. We went to Grandma and Grandpa's. There were 16 of us. The food was great. We had turkey, ham, potatoes, green bean casserole, corn casserole, cranberry relish, sweet pototoes, stuffing, and some other things that I am forgetting. `I hope all of you have much to be thankful for. I know I do. God bless!
