Happy New Year 2009!

We want to thank all of our friends and family for being the BEST and we pray God's blessings over each of you for 2009!! We are ever grateful for His grace and mercies that are new everyday. We feel very blessed to have each of you in our lives. We thank Him for a healthy, safe and great 2008! One of our special blessings in 2008 was the birth of our nephew/cousin, Judson Paul!! We are crazy about him and enjoyed lots of trips back to Ohio to see him. Our love to each of you who read our blog in 2009! Hope to see you soon or that y'all can come visit us - we have plenty of room for guests :)

Almost 4 Days Left

Needless to say, the kids are counting down until Christmas Day here. Not just on our Advent calendars but in every conversation and action!! It's soooo much fun to listen to them and their excitement. I'm glad Jesus is at the center of each conversation, we're blessed in that. Each day there are new questions like: "what time was he born?" ; "was He really born on the 25th of December?" Those aren't easy questions and like many answers that we have to give the one that always satisfies them and is truth is this one: "there are so many things that we don't know about His birth and God can't wait to reveal all of that to us when we get to heaven, there's so many more things we will learn and get to ask there." We're excited to get to heaven and we're also excited to celebrate Jesus' birth that happened 2000+ years ago. He's the reason we get so giddy over giving each other presents because He is the greatest one we've EVER been given!! Here's some pics of happenings around here this month, enjoy!!!