Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Go Tell It On The Mountain



I have been really humbled lately thinking about Christmas and our celebration of the birth of Jesus. How amazing is it that God sent his only son Jesus to save us from our sins. And the depth that Jesus loves each of us despite our mistakes.

We sang this song this past Sunday at church and the message really resonated with me. What a wonderful time of year to spread the good news:

He brought with Him forgiveness
He live to show us the way
He came to redeem all creation
And to wash all our sins away

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Preschool party

It seems making my public statement about leaving the camera in the car has prompted us to halt that bad habit, hooray.

Here we are singing Christmas carols at Jaden's preschool party

This picture is priceless - Jaden is not so sure of Santa

Jaden with teacher Karen

Parents were invited to come sing Christmas carols which the children have been practicing for a few weeks, enjoy snacks, visit with Santa, and pick up the holiday crafts they had been working on. Jacob and I both were able to attend, along with Caleb. So much fun!!

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Christmas party

Jacob and I have created this wonderful new habit, take the camera with us to an important event and then leave it in the car!! Wonderful isn't it? So the amount of pictures during this holiday season is small.

Luckily a co-worker of mine took pictures for us at the Home Life Holiday party.

Here we are with the raffle gift I won; I sure look excited:

Jaden looks like he might have had a little too much to drink:


And the family :)

The party was held at the local country club and luckily we had no crazy weather, except for rain, rain, and more rain. Last year an ice storm hit during the dinner so we all drove home while slipping all over the roads and the year before that the party was canceled due to snow. The person wearing the most festive holiday attire won a prize, unfortunately I don't really have much holiday attire. Caleb sported his but did not win.

We have been able to keep ourselves busy lately, as if life with 2 boys was not busy enough. This past weekend Jaden attended his first birthday party, well first party that he was invited to for someone his own age. It was for a friend from church and held at a local indoor play area. He now talks frequently about Zabel's party. After the party we ventured over to Story Book Land in Albany. Jaden is at the perfect age to enjoy walking around and looking at all the characters from many of the books he reads, including "Thomas blue train" (as Jaden would say). We definitely will be heading back each holiday season for the next few years.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Sunday

I got myself all ready for church this morning, makeup and everything, but Caleb decided he was too tired to eat before we left so I am now all prettied up with no place to go. It was too risky to take him to the nursery and then have him get upset because he was hungry.

So now I am watching Bounty Hunter (the movie with Jennifer Aniston) while Caleb rests. Jacob and I rented it last night but I fell asleep while watching (at like 9p, which makes me laugh) so I headed to bed before it was done.

Here are some Thanksgiving pictures:

We all gathered at Ashley and Paul's house for a yummy dinner, game playing, ornament making, and football watching. It was a lovely afternoon; thank you to Ashley and Paul for hosting!!