MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Ya---it is 2:30 am ANTICIPATION!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY

Dinner with Fam. and Temple Square

What's a post with out pictures... We went to Dinner with all our kids and Britt and her family. It was fun to hang out with Jason and especially awesome to be with Clark's sister Kathy. WE MADE IT TO TEMPLE SQUARE! It just is so much for fun after being out of state a few years. Danielle had only been once in her life, so she loved taking pictures. Tyrel and Terrence had the usual snowball fight. Kylie and Madison loved running through the snow. Seeing the many water pools. Seeing the manger scene. Maddie was obsessed by the "puppy" next to the Shepard's. We lost Laura (thank goodness for cell phones) We stopped at JB's (next to temple square) on the way home and had HOT CHOCOLATE with ice cream (cause Papa insisted) The lights were incredible and being with the family was just better than words can describe.

Kids say the cutest things!

Kylie was re-arranging Tyrel and Danielle's Nativity. She found a box of coasters and put Joseph on them so that he was higher than the rest of the scene. She called him "Jesus" then she circles the rest of the scene around him. Elyse asked her what she was doing she said "Jesus, is teaching the people to love one another." Sweet hu!" pretty cute for a 4 year old!

Our Christmas Present!

Just before leaving for UTAH the missionaries (the Albaugh's) gave us a Christmas Present!

It is a stone with our names printed in it... Everyone in El Dorado has one! NOW we are official Kansasites. WE LOVE IT!!!!

We'll Be Home For Christmas

My Last post till the New Year.... do you believe it? Well untill I get some awesome pictures of those Grandbabies! The next three days will be busy and we hope to find our way home to Utah so EVERYONE HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS! May love surround you this holiday season. May we all remember Jesus is the reason for the season.

I was BOLD....

So Heather thanks to you, I was bold today!! I am so excited and I have to tell everyone... I GAVE AWAY a - B. OF M.! WOO HOO, To the man that came to clean my carpets! He was telling me that it was going to be an awesome Christmas because his family was going to focus on Christ! He said " You know that is what is wrong with the world today, we have just gotten away from Christ and God" I couldn't resist telling him about The Book of Mormon "a second witness of Jesus Christ" SO I DID IT!

How Mary must have Felt?

I love the Story of the Birth of Jesus. How in humble circumstances Christ came to earth.

I often wonder how Mary must have felt? I have to remember that when my first child was born the enormous love I felt. As a first time Mom the enormous responsibility I felt. Not even an incling of what Mary's was feeling, I loved having that feeling with the Birth of each one of my kids . I loved wondering, if it was anything similar?

I love celebrating Jesus's birth, especially as a Mother.