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Sunday, January 18, 2015

December 2014

 Our December proved to be very low key.  I was huge and pregnant.  Kenny was helping switch hospitals, which was enormous task with lots of extra hours worked, then he hurt his knee.  By the time the middle of December came, we pretty much just tried, mostly, to stay at the house.  Luckily we put up the Christmas decorations at the beginning of the month, otherwise we might have forgone all of the decor.  Besides the quite obvious hard things (such as Kenny being on crutches and me getting big and huge) we had a wonderful December.
My boys are so cute.  This was before church one Sunday and they just happened to both look at the camera and smile.  It was Christmas miracle.
Our little Christmas village.  Kenny gets me a new piece each year.
 This year, Kenny had the grand idea of giving away our farm fresh eggs to the neighbors for Christmas.  We don't have many neighbors so it worked out really well.  We had the boys sit down on a table cloth on the floor and paint egg cartons and then decorate them with glitter.  They had a grand time doing it and it felt quite personal really.  We might have to repeat this every year.  We all had so much fun doing this and our neighbors really loved it.

 Unfortunately we don't have any pictures of Christmas Eve.  We went to a friend's house for dinner.  They had their adult children home for Christmas, and then they invited many of the foreign exchange students from the college in Fulton over as well.  It was sooo much fun!  Shiloh was in heaven with so many adults around to pay attention to him.  The dinner was great.  It was such a unique experience because there were students from all over the world there.  There were those representing the Jewish faith, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists, all celebrating Christmas with a bunch of Mormons, singing Christmas carols and listening to the Christmas story being read from Luke 2.  It showed me how much our beliefs can defines us, but with open minds and love in our hearts it can connect us too.

We didn't take too many pictures Christmas morning either, but the boys had a great Christmas.  They were so excited about it.  It was low key, but that is just the way we like it.  It was such a  relaxing day to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas.
I promise E has a diaper on, but his posturing hides it well.

Playing with some stamps that they got for Christmas.

Having a Birthday cake for Jesus on Christmas night. Tthe boys thought that it was particularly cool to have candles on it.
 A couple of days after Christmas, we decided to go for a walk across the Veterans Memorial Bridge in Jeff City.  I was, at this point, grumpy because I had been pregnant longer than ever before and we had been cooped up in the house and we got a break from the frigid temperatures.  The boys needed to stretch their legs too.  Kenny, unfortunately, hurt his knee more on this walk.  It probably wasn't the best plan for him to go, but he went anyway.  I believe Micah was born just two days after this evening.
They loved this walk.  We were lucky enough to see a train drive by along the side of the river.  The boys were in heaven!

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for sharing your Christmas with us. Your boys are truly the cutest kids I've ever seen!. Don't tell mine I said that. :)

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