Merry Christmas!!

 
Merry Christmas to everyone!! May you be blessed abundantly in the New Year!

Christmas Eve was James' birthday, so we had pizzas and root beer floats and watched movies.  He will be having his actual party on January 14th.

 We all had a great Christmas!

It ended up being just the five of us, but we are getting together with family on Monday (January 2nd)

 After we opened presents, we headed over to the Church.

 The kids were all in a play at church that told the Christmas story, and then ended with an alter call.

 The kids all did a great job with the play!  There were not very many people in service Christmas morning, but everyone enjoyed the play!

We hope everyone had a blessed Christmas!

Christmas Day

The kids had a blast opening their presents early (very very early!!) Christmas morning. Sorry I don't have any pictures of Becky, she took all of our Christmas and Pre-Christmas pictures with her new phone that she's so excited about! She has a job 2 days a week after school, so she can pay for the plan. We wanted her to have a cell phone/camera/video camera for her trip to Washington, and this way she has a few months to get used to it.

Christmas Day

Christmas afternoon my mom, Mike, and my brother Ken joined us for Christmas dinner. We had a great day!

Wednesday before Christmas

This is a Christmas Praise and Worship session at Randy and Laura's small group the Wednesday before Christmas. We had a great session, and Laura always makes everyone Latte's!

Sunday before Christmas

This was the Sunday before Christmas at City Church in Redding. They meet in the Cascade Theater, which is pretty neat. James and Thomas were onstage with the rest of the kids, singing Happy Birthday Jesus. You can see the boys in the picture of the kids walking onto the stage, Thomas is on the right in a yellow shirt, James is on the tier above him in a red shirt, second from the right. Our friend Susan's granddaughter Bailey is top tier on the left with a gold bow in her hair. The little girl in the front with the black and silver dress had a solo at the beginning and end of the song.