We had such a great holiday season this year! We truly felt at home and were blessed tremendously.
Sweet baby girl loves this toy our precious friends sent her! She even manages to pull it on occasion and set off the jungle song.
Finally getting some chubby cheeks! She did a great job while we were traveling in Patna.
Both boys, with the tree, BOTH smiling and looking at the camera. Now that was a Christmas miracle!
Caleb got to put the angel on top this year!
This is such a classic Noah face...he IS as ornery as he looks!
Our attempt at all three wasn't as successful.
This was an unfortunate holiday accident. We had company one night, but I decided I couldn't wait for the perfect moment to give the boy's haircuts before Christmas. So, I chose bedtime while daddy was busy with company. That combined with the fact that our clippers weren't charged...we ended up with this disaster of a haircut! I cried...Jared loved it...story of our hair cutting business thus far!
I was soooo tempted to just make some cup cakes for his birthday and do something easy, but I was more determined to not them him be the non-birthday boy because the holidays are just so crazy. So he got his cars cake after all!
The boys and I made Christmas Cheer plates (or tins in our case). They stamped fun greetings on the lids in Christmas colors.
They made sugar cookies with Grandma when she was here in October. We pulled them out of the freezer and they "painted" the icing on their cookies. They did an awesome job!
Of course, they needed to taste all the candy to make sure we were giving out the good stuff!
They had a lot of fun filling the boxes for our friends!
One of my favorite pictures from the holidays. Just makes you want to squeeze him tight, huh?!
Our sweet friends came caroling to our house. Anna Kate LOVES singing. She just sat there all comfy cozy with Esther.
We served them hot chocolate and popcorn while we sang.
Our sweet friends came over for Christmas Eve dinner. We had such great food! It was truly like being at home with great family!
We took family pictures by the tree.
Great friends that are like family to us...so many great memories here!
I took a cake to our church for Christmas. This is certainly different than anything they have seen before but they loved it!
This was after Christmas was over but before we took down our tree. This little one is the sweetest!
What a precious Savior that we celebrated this season. It was a great time to simply reflect on the person of Jesus Christ. May we never forget the sacrifice of His birth!
