Christmas Time

Well it's almost past for another year and I look back and wonder where it went... Thank you Jesus for giving us a reason to celebrate. He is the reason for this season and all the others as well!

Our kids opened their gifts from each other, Grampa & Gramma 'on the farm', Uncle Les and us on Christmas Eve. They had a blast and if we thought we didn't have that much living space before we really noticed it once they were trying to ride their little hobby horses up and down the trailer! It was a fun time. We tried to go to a church pageant (notice I said TRIED); unfortunately our little princess didn't think that 5pm was an appropriate time to be going to church and sitting! So after about 20 minutes we left and went back home to make supper and open our gifts.

Samuel got to talk to Uncle Willy (one of the greatest gifts for him!). I talked to my family and realized how I really wish we could have been there. We really missed family on Christmas Eve!

Christmas Day came and we got ready to head out to Hammond to spend it with the Raifords. We had an awesome time with them, the kids got to run and play and us adults got to sit and eat - how dreamy is that!! There are a lot of fun pictures of our day together but it'll take a while to get them online (I'm having some space issues on my laptop). Tisha and Kent opened their home to us and we are very thankful that they did. God is good and we treasure their friendship.

So we begin the weekend with renewed faith in a God that will care for us and give us exactly what we need when we need it - all for the purpose of honoring Him.

We pray that you all had a good Christmas with friends and family and that you had time for Christ as well! Let us know what you're doing... we would love to keep in touch. Thank you to all of you that are emailing and calling - we treasure all the communication we get!

Home

"Yes!" is an answer to all of you who have been asking. Yes we miss "Home" but we have quickly realized that Home is where your heart is and this Christmas we have focussed on Christ and our kids and each other. It's changed things a lot for this 'shopaholic'!

We miss our family and friends but we know you'll all do what you do at Christmas... celebrate Christ and enjoy fellowship with those you love. We will do the same here. We will be with The Raifords and we're looking forward to being in their home for Christmas Day.

It is hard to believe that Christmas came so quickly again this year. Yesterday in church we had the pastor say something I hadn't thought of before - "As Christians we celebrate Christ all year - but during Christmas the rest of the world joins us - we need to show them how..." We truly need to celebrate Him coming with our lives all year so that others can know about Him.

We went out to Tony and Donna Duplessis (some of you know them) this past Sunday and had a good time. Their granddaughter was with them so the kids were excited to see her and have some play time. It was a two hour drive (one way) so it was a good Sunday Drive.

Thank you to all of you that have sent us Christmas wishes. Thank you Jobe for calling Samuel - that made his day pretty exciting! Thank you for the special note Les! Made me shed a little tear missing life at home and being at Mom & Dad's with everyone!

Well off to do the laundry... I'll put up some pictures real soon.

Make a Smilebox greeting

Christmas

I read a wonderful church sign today; it read:
"What gift will you give Christ this Christmas"

I've been wondering how we can help our kids to understand that Christmas is about Christ and not just gifts for them and I think He just answered my prayer. This year and every year to come I hope that I can sit with my kids and have a conversation of what we will be giving Christ. I'm really excited to start that this year.