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Monday, December 26, 2011

Christmas Eve & Morning 2011

We attended our Christmas Eve service at our church.  The children played all the parts of the nativity except for Joseph and Mary.  The kids are always so cute and sometimes pretty funny.  It’s always a blessing to me to gather together as a church family on Christmas Eve to sing and fellowship.  Afterwards we went out to dinner.

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Christmas morning Davis came in and picked up this present right away.  After that he had no interest in opening any of the presents.

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Chris wanted pictures of the kids in front of the tree so Amber took this picture of Abby before everyone started opening their gifts.

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This is the only time all three sat down in front of the tree.  So Chris you will have to get that picture from Amber.

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They loved the table and chair set Jonathan and Chris gave them for Christmas.

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Amber helping Jackson open his stocking.  They were sitting so good at the table so Amber let them open their stockings first this year.

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Davis on the other hand didn’t need any help, he kept peeking down into the stocking and pulling things out.

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Abby opening her skates.  She thinks they are ice skates, she’s into ice skating, (pretend of course).

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It’s amazing how excited kids get when they get a ball.  Dustin picked up three balls for them while shopping and they loved them.  It was one thing they kept going back to all day.

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Abby opening her princess sheets.  Davis in the background with the ball, of course.

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This is a princess trunk with dress up clothes and some jewelry in it.

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Michelle and Josh sent the boys these blocks and when they opened them up they were out of the box in two seconds.

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The kids spent a big part of the day at the table.  JoAnn and Tim sent them two different types of Etch a Sketch boards and they spent a lot of time on those.  That’s Davis standing up.December 2011 038

Abby is painting with the Crayola (no mess) paint set.

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Hope your Christmas was an enjoyable one.  May God continue to bless each of you this coming New Year.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Back on Line 12-22-11

It seems like an eternity since I have updated my blog.  It all started when a virus attacked my computer a week before Thanksgiving.  It was getting pretty ancient and slow so I thought it would be a good time to get a new one.  After two weeks of deciding what to buy and three more weeks of getting the new one set up like I wanted it and a few glitches worked out I’m finally able to blog again.   So in the next few days I will try to catch up on my November/December events.

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The Sunday after Thanksgiving we went to the Blue Ridge Mountains to  cut down two Fraser firs.  The area is near Boone and they have a lot of tree farms there.

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Somehow we managed to get out of the house without Abby’s jacket so she is wearing Amber’s sweatshirt.

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The people at the tree farm gave Abby her own tree.

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Here’s the whole crew after getting the tree tied to the Suburban. It was extremely windy up on top of the ridge.  They actually got snow the day after we were there.