serendipity

I have just been struck with a personal blogging goal that is pure serendipity for me. Once a month, this year, I am going to endeavor to do a post, with pictures, which will include the following:

1. Pretty hairstyles I have tried on the girls
2. A recipe that the kids and I have cooked up
3. What we are studying in our Spiritual Training Time
4. A service project that we have done together
5. An art project we've completed

We enjoyed a lovely Christmas with our family and are getting back into the swing of things with our school work. We wish you and your family all the best in this New Year!

Sweet Christmas Times

~ visiting a "live" nativity

~ Christmas doughnuts from Krispy Kreme

~ writing Christmas notes to Sunday school, choir and missions teachers

~ kids wrapping presents for each other

~ our Christmas picture

E playing Light the Advent Candle at church.

~ our Chrismon wreath

~ counting down the days until Christmas

~ making a daily chain depicting the events of Advent

~ celebrating the Sundays of Advent

We LOVE Christmas and are enjoying all the sights, sounds and traditions of this most precious season. We wish everyone all the joy and wonder of these sweet Christmas times!

F-I-V-E!

Our baby girl turned five years old today! S is spunky and super-creative :o)

I told her that she's a whole "hand-ful" now! Her Papa says that she already was one!

We love you baby girl!

Today With M!

One Year Ago Today

Two Years Ago Today - Kunming City, Yunnan Province, Republic of China

Two years ago today, my eyes first beheld the living form of this precious child. She was scared, overwhelmed and in survival mode. We were incredibly excited, overwhelmed and in wonder that this day had actually arrived. Our daughter is bright, energetic, creative, brave, thoughtful, patient, and talkative. Our family is blessed. Tremendously blessed.

Birthday Celebrations!