On Christmas Day we went to church in the morning and then to my moms for our family Christmas. We were all there most of the day and it was so much fun! Love my nutty family!
Laura and Chris came to our church for Christmas Day so I attempted this picture after church before the kids changed clothes.
Again, another attempt. I gave Laura my camera and she couldn't get Mike and I in the picture - we were between Ashley and Laura. We tried this about 5 times and she cut us out each time. (And Justin was between Laura and Chris). There were 17 of us there.
Julie is in Africa for her Missionary work and this is her first Christmas there. Her boyfriend Will flew to Kenya to spend Christmas with her. We were able to skyp with her (sorta - bad connection) and talk to her and watch her open her gifts from us.
I know a girl who makes signs and I saw this saying on Pinterest and thought it was perfect for mom, her house and her family.
Gifty (on the left) is my moms foreign exchange student and her sister Jamesetta is going to CSP to joined our family for a week of her Christmas break.
Martin & Lisa
So blessed.
Since we had so much rain this fall, the small pond in my moms pasture filled up, and then froze. My brothers (and Mike and Bennett) are thrilled and have been out there constantly.
Mike bought Bennett a pair of skates as soon as he found out about this pond freezing. And Bennett got the hockey stick as a Christmas present. He caught on pretty quickly and it loving playing with the 'big boys'.
You may have seen the "Saran Wrap Game" going around on the internet this past month. We did it and it was a blast! Highly recommended for a fun group game!
Ok, what is the Saran Wrap game?
ReplyDeleteKay - here is something I found on youtube about it explaining it.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wgdt_ykRzc
Dennis did our game and he had a $20 bill as the final prize, like they show in the video. He had it in a small tuperware bowl so make it easier to start wrapping I guess. He also had a few $1 bills in it, a gift card, some candy, popcorn bags, hot chocolate packs etc. Our ball was about the size of a volleyball and with our 13 adults playing it took us about 10 minutes. But he said his church youth group did it and it took about 45 minutes. It just depends on how tight you wrap the saran wrap plus how many doubles people get. For us there were many times that you'd barely have the ball in your hands and the person in front would have doubles already so you'd have to pass it on. It was a blast and something I'm pretty positive we'll keep going for a few years.