Christmas & New Years

Christmas was so much fun this year as Joshua and Jenna really began to understand the meaning of Christmas and enjoyed opening their presents. We went to Christmas Eve service at our church where the kids were with us in "big church". It was really nice too - we sang old and new Christmas songs and told the story of Jesus' birth out of the book of Luke. At the end we also turned all the lights off and had a candelight singing of Silent Night to remind us to bring our lights into the world around us and to contunue to spread the joy.

We stayed home for New Years - seems like each year its a little harder to go out somewhere having a lot of friends with older kids, or no kids. Last year the kids had RSV, so we were house bound, and thankfully this year everyone was healthy. It was just REALLY cold and windy outside, so we stayed in. Maybe next year.....