Christmas 2010

Ok, so better late than never, right? For me, life with 3 kids, coupled with being a working mom and trying to keep up a decent house hasn't left me with a lot of free time to do most of the things I used to enjoy, such as blogging, for example. But the primary hope and reason that I do this blog at all is that one day, I hope to be able to print it up like a scrapbook. Having said that, here are some glimpses of last Christmas. (Can't have a scrapbook without some Christmas!)


We attempted to take a family Christmas picture. Attempted being the operative word. This one makes me laugh because we using the camera timer, and had already done a million takes, and could not get the baby to look at the camera. She was all over the place, and mostly wanted to look at everyone else, which only gave us profile shots. We were running out of patience from the other kids, and so we had the brilliant idea that if we turned on the TV, that she would look at that at the TV and then we would at least get the front of her face. Needless to say, this plan backfired in a major way (despite multiple threats to the older kids about looking at the TV. Actually, I am kinda surprised Marshall was able to resist the urge to stare at it. You see, they get the TV mesmerzation gene from their father.)

Christmas Sunday best.

Every year, my family has a fun tradition that we always do. We get together the last Friday night before Christmas and have a nice dinner, and then we read Luke 2 and the kids act out the Nativity. It has been fun to watch them play the same parts every year. It is amazing to watch my nieces and nephews, as well as my own children, grow and develop over the years, as they play the same parts each year. To me, these kinds of traditions that we do are a big part of what makes my family life so fulfilling to me.

The Christmas feast.

My dad reading the Nativity story.

Nana also likes to read the kids The Story of the Three Trees. This is a neat story and has also become a part of our Christmas celebration.

This Christmas, Nana worked really hard to make a special gift for all the kids. She made each child a little notebook/journal/scrapbook with blank pages to write things, as well as some special pictures of them that she chose and placed in there. She worked really hard on them and they turned out really great. Drew has enjoyed writing and drawing in his very much.

Nana and Papa came over on Christmas Eve to watch some Christmas movies with us, and we got to open the Christmas jammies!

Christmas jammies!

This will be a memorable Christmas for me. We had quite the eventful year, with the windows of heaven being opened to us even more than usual. Since we were so grateful for all that we had, didn't really need anything, and didn't really have time to stress over it, Marshall and I decided we would go very simple on our gifts for each other-one gift each. I loved what we came up with:I got him a black gym bag from Wal-Mart, and he got me a new spatula, because mine broke in the dishwasher. It was perfect. We had a great Christmas, enjoying time spent with those we love, and overall, just felt very blessed with all that the Lord had done for us over the past year.