Wednesday, 31 December 2008

We met Dad, Mom and Stephen down in Clanton for their annual Christmas parade. It has become a very fun Christmas tradition for us.

We went down to Dad and Mom's after our church's Christmas Eve service for our traditional spaghetti dinner and time of carols and memories. Fun, special time.

Christmas morning we read the Christmas story from Luke 2 and then opened our gifts.

Starwish joined us for the Bible reading The kids looking for the pickle.

We went back down to Dad and Mom's and had a great afternoon being together. We sure missed being with Bryan, Angie, Charlie and Samuel though. We got a video chat set up and we were able to talk with them and see them. Charlie was so cute and was showing us his gifts. We saw baby Samuel, it was very neat. I am so thankful for technology!


Bec made us girls some REALLY cute aprons!
Dad got a picture of his dad, Noah, on a tractor and held Noah and said "here are the two Noah's and their tractors".

• 12:15 AM

Friday, 26 December 2008

Merry Christmas everyone! I don't know where time has gone-seems like it should still be October when I last posted. We have been doing well... staying busy since then. I wish I could go back and post about all the fun times we have had in October and November but should probably just stick with December. I will try to give a quick recap.....

Joshua had his 3rd grade program at school and it was very cute.....

Abby and Sarah had their choir program at church.....

Abby had her ballet party.....

Josh's parents came on the 11th and we had a great time with them. We stayed busy though! We cut our tree down on Saturday while they were here. We got a small one this year and the kids were THRILLED they could carry it.

They loved riding the pony!

Josh got the lights on the tree and the kids had fun decorating it.....

The kids had their Christmas piano recital at a local retirement home....
It was Sarah's first piano recital and she did great!

I enjoyed going to all the kids school Christmas parties last week....



Some friends of ours gave us some tickets to ride on a local train that was doing a Santa train ride. We had been trying to go but the kids had been sick and it wasn't working out. Sunday was the last day so we went and rode it. The kids had a good time, though Joshua and Abby still weren't feeling great.



I think I will close out this post as my "quick" update is getting rather long. I will finish up with my next post(hopefully it will follow sooner rather than later).

• 11:25 PM