3 Wise Men and a Baby!

Tyler and Kylee were in our church's Christmas Play this past Saturday.

This play had a great way of showing that the BEST gift of Christmas is the birth of Jesus Christ, and the best gift we can give to Him is our HEARTS, LOVE AND WORSHIP!!

Tyler was Elvistonia a Wise Man and Kylee was Mary!!

They did a great job!! Tyler had several lines and a solo and Kylee just had to look sweet holding Baby Jesus!

Gingerbread House!!

This was the first year we were able to attend our churches Gingerbread house building!! How what a treat that was....We had no idea what we were in for...the custom houses were amazing.

The candy we got to choose from:

We are just doing a the classic Gingerbread House!

What a team!! Jacob worked on his own "hotel with smoke"

We were pretty happy with our results, and the kids got to do whatever they liked!

Kylee got a little frosting in her face from a friend!
It was a fun night!! With some great building!!

A Barn, the Stable, a Waterfall, Emerald City, Noah's Ark......very creative people we have here!

Our Nativity!

We are carrying out my side of the families tradition of guessing the special person or animal in the newspaper. We feel, guess, see if we are right and then tell the story behind it. The kids love it and so do I!!

Austin in December!

Austin with some Afghanistan children!! I love when he post new picture to see what he has been doing and to just see that DIMPLE MAKES MY DAY!!!!

Today was the first day we talked to Austin through Skype. The kids were a little sleepy still but it was WONDERFUL TO SEE HIM!! you can tell he misses his brothers and sister soooo much!

Getting Ready for Christmas!!

Boys love to be on the roof when doing lights!

Picking out our TREE!!!

Decorating our tree and some ENJOYING the snacks. Tyler was picked to put the angel on this year!

Our NEW ornament this year-AUSTIN!!!!!

Christmas Dinner at Aunt Pepper's!

Off to Aunt Pepper and Uncle Dick's for our annual Christmas dinner! The kids always look forward to going to Pepper's house to go on the hill and swing the club, especially Jacob!!! Mike was not able to go this year so it was a weird without him, but we had a great time visiting with the family that was there.
Pepper with the first group of kids=)

Wild kids showing off their gifts!!

Dinner time!!

Relaxing after a YUMMY meal!!

Aunt Pepper, always a fun night and wonderful, yummy food! Thank you for having us over every year!! The kids LOVE it and so do I!!

Finally a Tether ball!!

Having a tether ball is a HUGE thing with the kids friends. We told the kids they can get one when they get a certain number of Reading Count points. They successfully reached that in October, but being the busiest time for Mike we haven't had a chance to get it up!!

Mike was blessed to have the whole weekend off for Thanksgiving...perfect the tether ball is going up!!

Kids love it!!!!!