Winter wonderland
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More family Christmas
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Our last Christmas get together was with Andy’s parents, Jared, Becky and Maddie. We had such a nice time with you guys :)
Sibling breakfast
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While we were home over Christmas we had a sibling breakfast at Justin and Kate’s. It was quick but it was fun to get together. I have to apologize for the terrible pictures of everyone, but I didn’t want to NOT post them. Love you guys!
More Christmas!
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Yeah, so it’s almost February and I’m still getting to the Christmas pictures…
We had a nice dinner and present time with my mom, Paul, Justin, Kate and Brielle a few days after Christmas.
Christmas guest
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Last week we had the honor of hosting Sylvia, an international student from Uganda. She’s attending EBI (Elim Bible Institute) down in Lima and since she couldn’t return home for Christmas, families from our church have been inviting her to stay with them over break. It was so cool to hear her story and God’s faithfulness in every step of her journey. We got to take her around town to see the Christmas lights (Americans go ALL out for Christmas). Actually the lights were pretty neat, it was the first year we drove around to see them. Some houses even had lights timed to music you could tune into on your radio. And one entire neighborhood in Farmington put together a spectacular show.
We introduced Sylvia to tacos and Wendy’s fast food and she made a traditional porridge for us for breakfast one morning. She was also able to join us for Ben’s school Christmas party which was neat. We found out she’d worked through her last school semester without a computer, relying on the library and lab computers to get her work done. So Andy fixed up a laptop and we gifted it to her. Before she left she asked if she could pray for us and bless our family. Afterwards Ben exclaimed “Wow! That was a LONG prayer” :)
One of my favorite memories (and the kids’ too when asked) was drumming, dancing and singing with Ms. Sylvia. Thank you for spending time with us and sharing some of your life and culture. We’re thankful to have a new friend!
Thanksgiving 2015
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We spent a few days at Andy’s parents’ house for Thanksgiving this year. My mom, Paul and Gabby joined us for dinner and Kate popped over with Brielle for a little bit that afternoon. It was such a nice time spent with family. Dinner and desserts were pretty amazing too :)
Anyone want some leftovers? :)
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We really lucked out and had beautiful WARM weather (50s and 60s) over the holiday this year. We took the kids to the park to run some extra energy off. Minus a giant meltdown from Ben, it was a fun adventure and good to be outside at the end of November.
We also spent some time just chilling and watching movies together. Andy and his dad set up their Christmas tree too and the kids were super excited to see it when they got up from nap. Speaking of naps, I was telling my mom that Cassidy still stayed in her crib and had never climbed out of the pack n play and we were super lucky. Wouldn’t you know 5 minutes after having that conversation we heard a “thud” and “scurry, scurry, scurry” from upstairs. She climbed out of her pack n play for the first time and was wandering around the bedroom upstairs!
We headed home Friday night and as I was unpacking all our stuff, Andy was packing all his gear for another hunting weekend. Saturday morning I picked up an international student from our church and headed to Victor’s Christmas in the Village. Sylvia is from Uganda and had actually spent Thanksgiving with another family in our church, but it was fun to show her some of our holiday festivities with the kids. We did a cute story and activity time at the library and walked around the village for a bit. It started to rain so we didn’t do the wagon ride or some of the other events, but went out to lunch and had a nice afternoon. I didn’t get any pictures because it was hard enough keeping track of the kids and they weren’t being terribly cooperative, but it was still a pretty fun outing. I enjoyed getting to know Sylvia a bit more too, definitely neat meeting people with different cultural backgrounds and life experiences :)
