God's greatest gift of His son gives us not just life in Him and assurance of our salvation through His grace, but also a fabulous reason to celebrate! :)
We kicked off the Christmas festivities yesterday with our annual cookie making. The pastoral staff serves the whole church goodies on Christmas morning, and we've taken to spending our Christmas Eve day baking and decorating about 10 dozen bars and cookies. Since the girls are impatient to open gifts at night, this gives us something to do to pass the daytime hours. Also, I've grown pretty fond of how this encourages us our family yet again to give before getting.
Then we dive into the mountain of presents that has been growing under our tree each day as the FedEx and UPS workers deliver gifts from our family. We were over-the-top spoiled once again with abundant presents that were thoughtful and just perfect for us. I think the girls' faces in the following pictures show their excitement and gratitude...
THANK YOU, EVERYONE!!
We had fondue for dinner and closed the night out playing with all the new toys. I tried on my new pants, scarves and boots and read about picnic recipes and hiking trails in California. Dave made a fancy cup of coffee. We loaded pictures onto the digital frame. The girls wove Rainbow bracelets and colored Smencil pictures, then they got McKenna and Kaya ready for a grand sleepover. We're having a lot of fun! :)
And today has been just as lovely of a day! Dave preached a great "What happened to the sheep?" sermon. A new turkey cooking method did smoke out my entire house and cause all the alarms to sound this morning before church, which the girls did not love, but the dinner was salvageable and actually pretty good. Lily loves these holidays too because it means dropped meat scraps for her!
When you get things like bikes and scooters for Christmas in the Midwest, you just have to pack it away until spring, but we spent today trying out the new Razor scooters from Uncle Kyle, and with no coats!
"God's Great Gifts" seems to be a reoccurring theme for us this season. We are certainly thankful for the gift of each of you and the impact you have on our lives! Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas, VMs! Glad you all had a wonderful one! (We have two new scooters here, too, although the one for the youngest has three wheels. :) )
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