Saturday, January 3, 2009

A Joyous Christmas

As a special treat Shawn came home with us from the Bales house and stayed the night. I was able to take an old stocking of mine and put his name on it and even had a few things to give him. The boys loved having their Uncle Shawn get to stay over on Christmas!
Traditional orange in the stocking

Advent wreath- one candle represents the Prophets who foretold about Jesus, another is for Bethlehem where Jesus was born, another is for the shepherds and the joy that they had at the announcement of Jesus birth, another is for the part the angles played in announcing Jesus to Mary, Joseph, and the shepherds. The center is the Christ candle representing Christ coming into the the world and being the Light and also for His second coming.


Uncle Shawn brought his guitar- lots of fun!

Singing praises!

Opening gifts...

A Slinky!

Rockets from Grandpa John and Grandma Linda

Race cars

Little solider

In the evening we went to Fred and Luci's and were abundantly blessed!

Stephen, Jen and Samuel

Lego fun. I am not sure which boys enjoyed it more- ours or Sam and Stephen

Jonathan, Fred, Luci

The boys and Samuel

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