Christmas 2012

 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from us to you! I trust you had a blessed Christmas Season and are anticipating the great things God has for you during this New Year! Even though the political and financial outlook for 2013 seem a bit grim, we know that we can still have JOY in Jesus! EnJOY some photos of our Holiday Season activities!

Christmas Eve Dinner at Mom's

Rose made the table look so pretty!

Wonderful yummy goodness....and all good for you!

Rose will hate me for this, but I never could get a picture of her "dressed up"...she was on vacation;-)

Our three munchkins

Tada!

He can never resist an opportunity to be goofy:-)

The girls had fun decorating their gingerbread house with their friends!

Christmas Day Breakfast

The morning festivities were a little much, I think:-)

Addy and her Kirsten doll (Thank you Aunt Cissy, Grandmom, Mom and Dad!)

The reading of the Christmas Story

Caleb directing our sing time of Christmas Songs

He's his Papa's boy!

Looonnngg day:-)

Audrey and her violin! (Thank you Grandmom and Mom and Dad for your part!)

"Oh my! I'm SOOO cute!"

Off to see the lights in McAdenville

Our handsome taxi driver!

Caleb and Mommy looking at the lights

Family Fun weekend with Cissy and Bobby

Enjoying Aunt Cissy's homemade egg nog

Caleb "helping" Uncle Bobby eat his cake:-)

Me with my Aunt! Love her!

It's okay...she had her 3 day pass;-)

Audrey and Aunt Cissy racing the cars at Fun Depot

I got her to be still long enough to take one picture! lol!

Ummmm...I don't know if we should have let her (Aunt Cissy) have that thing...;-)

Aunt Cissy and Uncle Bobby havin' fun!

"Gracious! How do you get this thing to go!"

Thanksgiving 2012

This year for Thanksgiving we continued our new tradition of helping out at the Ronald McDonald house in Winston-Salem. We had a great time preparing the food and then serving it! My Grandmother got to come down to help as well as my cousin, Chris, and his wife, Amy. I have not seen Chris in about 22 years so it was good to catch up and meet his wife. They now live in the Raleigh area of NC, so we're looking forwards to more visits with them! Here's some highlights of the day...

Mom provided some lovely dinner music

Dad helped alright! He helped eat all that yummy stuff! JK...he really did help:-)

My cousin, Chris, his wife Amy, and my Grandmom

The crazy foursome:-) Emma just cracks me up...she and Addy make a team!

Daddy and Caleb hanging out

My sweet Grandmom who came all the way from TN to spend the week with us

The Friday following Thanksgiving, we got together with Stephen's family and had a great time of fellowship and riding Uncle Tim's fourwheeler! That was a BLAST! I even rode it and just had a great time doing that. Stephen took several pictures on his phone as well, so hopefully I can get him to post those on here too:-)

The two babies...one running, one picking...:-)

The big girls and Grandpa having some R and R:-)

The FOUR musketeers

What is it with throwing bark chips everywhere? I guess it's fun!

Sweet Caleb swinging away

Silly K...can't ever get that girl to be still long enough to look at the camera!! I guess she was busy driving...see, girls do drive responsibly!! She was keeping her eyes on the "road"...lol!

We had a great time enjoying our family and friends and also enjoyed being able to minister to the people at the RMH. We hope to be able to continue doing that from now on and are so thankful for that privilege! It is hard to believe that Christmas is upon us and we're putting up our tree and decorations tonight after Stephen gets home. Tis the Season for counting your Blessings and for remembering that God is the Giver of those blessings and without Him, we wouldn't have anything to celebrate!