Christmas 2015

On the eve of Christmas Eve the boys slept out out under the Christmas tree lights. (Though they both ended up in our room by morning! :)

We let them open a gift bag that included new pajamas from mom and new books from Grandma!

Not so good quality photos were taken with my cell phone.

 

A rare family photo taken at church after the Christmas Eve service.

 Christmas Morning!

Opening stockings. These stockings are special.

My Grandma has knitted each member of our family a personalized stocking of their own.

Then after breakfast and reading the Christmas story we opened more gifts.

We also got to skype with the Gills in Northern Ireland and spoke to my family in Florida over the phone.

Thankful for these fast and easy ways to connect with family far away.

Our friends Adam and Amy came over about 1:00 for a big Christmas dinner.

Lots of good food was enjoyed and then we played games all afternoon.

Good times!

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The Power of a Simple Gift

I love seeing the excitement and joy that my boys get out of packing a shoe box full of goodies for another little boy or girl that they don't even know. 

What they do know is that there are children all over the world that don't know Jesus yet or get any special gifts at Christmas time. And by packing a special box for one of those children we are sharing the love of Jesus with them and pray that with this one simple gift the door will be opened for them to hear and accept the Greatest Gift ever Given, Jesus Christ. 

You can find out more about Operation Christmas Child here. 

And did you know if you pay the shipping on your box online it give you a label to print out to attach to your box so it can be scanned and tracked and you can see where in the world your box ends up! How cool is that?

Embrace the Camera ~ December 15th

A family photo from the day we picked out our Christmas tree!

Decorating Ginger Bread Men

Santa's Christmas Tree Forest

Petting the animals

Jumping in the hay

Gonna get mommy!

Wagon ride

Picking out our Christmas tree

Super big jumping pillow

Horse rides!

Elijah's horse was named Maddie.

Ethan's pony was named Scooter.