Well, we arrived home from Thanksgiving in Fresno and it was December!! (Sorry no pics from Thanksgiving....I didn't take any, I need to get some from my mom and dad) Time for the Christmas tree!! We have had our Christmas tree from last year sitting in our front yard (it's a potted/live tree) so all we had to do was clean it off and bring it inside! Here are our very strong boys posing as if they carried the tree in. (But really Josh did). And because we actually use our fireplace (daily!!) we can't hang our stockings there....so they frame our big window.
The boys were so excited to put the ornaments on, and Abbey, though not very excited about it, watched us all! Our little girl is 4 months already, Wow!
And here are the kids after we finished. The lower third of the tree has many ornaments because that's about as high as the kids could reach. They love walking around the tree and talking about the ornaments. Melmo (Elmo) is Seth's favorite and Joel loves all the Disney ones. We already have a few presents wrapped (most from Nani and Papa D) to finish out the tree. We are excited for this season but already see how difficult it is to teach young minds that Christmas is about God coming in flesh to our world, the incarnation, the nativity....and that more than His birth its about His whole plan of salvation and redemption! Lord, help us to be good parents.
Well, we arrived home from Thanksgiving in Fresno and it was December!! (Sorry no pics from Thanksgiving....I didn't take any, I need to get some from my mom and dad) Time for the Christmas tree!! We have had our Christmas tree from last year sitting in our front yard (it's a potted/live tree) so all we had to do was clean it off and bring it inside! Here are our very strong boys posing as if they carried the tree in. (But really Josh did). And because we actually use our fireplace (daily!!) we can't hang our stockings there....so they frame our big window.
The boys were so excited to put the ornaments on, and Abbey, though not very excited about it, watched us all! Our little girl is 4 months already, Wow!
And here are the kids after we finished. The lower third of the tree has many ornaments because that's about as high as the kids could reach. They love walking around the tree and talking about the ornaments. Melmo (Elmo) is Seth's favorite and Joel loves all the Disney ones. We already have a few presents wrapped (most from Nani and Papa D) to finish out the tree. We are excited for this season but already see how difficult it is to teach young minds that Christmas is about God coming in flesh to our world, the incarnation, the nativity....and that more than His birth its about His whole plan of salvation and redemption! Lord, help us to be good parents.
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Like some merry damn has broken,
And its joyous torrent freed,
Come the children on Christmas morning-
A happy giggling stampede!
so true my rhyming friend.
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