Celebrate

Christmas and New Year's have come and gone, 

but here are a few of the lasting memories from our fun celebrations!

Christmas Eve we typically have hors d'oeuvres followed by a service where we sing and read the story of Christ's birth. This year Johanna was in charge of setting it up (and Vanessa was her little helper :). We were blessed to have the F. family join us, although I'm afraid we kept them up waaaaay too long :(.

Then it was time for the Scripture Questions!

Concentration

Dad filled these envelopes with "thin goodies" :) and wrote a question pertaining to the birth of Christ on the front of each...

If we got the question correct we received what was inside the envelope :).

Tough stuff

Conked out afterwards

Christmas morning...

Reading about Christ's birth in front of the fireplace is the best

Then, what do ya know? We got our much desired snow fall!

Bella was so mesmerized by it

A few days later we brought the New Year 

in like she ought to be issued in...

(pretty healthy, right? but I won't show you what we had for dessert :)

Matching beauties

We finished the night off with a game (and... confession time... we went to bed before midnight! shhh...)

But it's a good thing since this little man was born New Year's Day 

and we needed all the sleep we could get :)