Merry Christmas!

Well, we had a very blessed Christmas! We had our birthday Party for Jesus! (The only time the kids get to eat cake for breakfast is on Christmas morning)

Kenya and Elijah got some great presents that they played with for about 20 minutes before asking if they could play more video games on the game boy that their cousin had left at our house the day before. But we did get a picture of "Violet"(the incredibles girl) and "Dash" (the incredibles boy) before they went to bed the other night. (Thank you Aunt Alecia for the PJ's)

It was so nice to have lots of snow in the days surrounding Christmas,
it made everyone slow down and hang out at home a little more. We have spent a lot of the last two weeks doing this...
as the roads were pretty bad to drive on and you can only suit up for 20 minutes to play in the snow for 2 minutes, so many times.

We did have a cousin slumber party on the day after Christmas, Kenya had Mia age 9 and Lakota age 7 over and we had pedicures, made a sewing project, "bejeweled" their shirts, played games. All on a list of things they made to do.
The next day for Elijah's sake we had Cade over too (his male cousin) and we managed to sneak in some "dog pile Uncle Tadd" time.


We got a great Christmas present, Isaiah's house mom sent us some pictures of him opening his presents and stocking.

She is so awesome and we are so blessed that God has brought her and her husband Clay to us as an answer to our prayers of having someone to be great parental figures while we can not. They have been taking wonderful care of our son until we can. And also Hal and Chris who are taking care of out daughter in the Girls home until we can be with her also. We are still praying about going to Haiti soon, we still do not have anyone to rent our house as of now and we are still trying to raise all the support needed. We trust that if Haiti is in God's plan He will provide answers to both. We are hoping to make our final decision in the next two weeks and see if this is what He has for us now or if He has other plans. Thank you for all of your prayers and support, We hope you all had a blessed and safe Christmas. We pray Christ will remain in all of our thoughts year round, as much as He is during the Chrismas season.

Interesting Winter Wonderland

Grandpa Davis and Uncle Roger got here monday night and we had four days of too much fun. We made gingerbread houses one night. Then cookies to hang on the tree the next. Followed by Grandpa and Uncle Roger treating us to a night at The Mt. Baker Theatre for a showing of "The Nutcracker Ballet."

Finally on the last night we traveled an hour south to Stanwood to visit "The lights of Christmas" at the Warm Beach Conference Center. They had over a million Christmas lights up around the grounds. Then crafts, petting zoo, pony rides, horse drawn wagon rides and a great conversation with "Bruce the talking Spruce." It was so much fun.

The only problem was, by the time we got to the face painting they were closing for the night. So mom promised to paint their faces in the morning and this is what we came up with.

It was so much fun and we are enjoying hanging out and being healthy. Hopefully it sticks and we will not come down with any more of the winter bugs.

We have had some seriously cold windy weather. Since we had a lot of trees cut down around our house in order for them to make room to widen the road in front of us, we have a lot of week unprotected trees that have been rearranging themselves in the wind. Here are a couple of pictures.

The Lord has been very good to us and protected us from any falling on our house.

We are so blessed with everything we have and are especially thankful at this time of year for wonderful family and friends like you to share it with.

Getting Ready for Christmas

Well, Tadd and I have decided that since we are waiting until the 2nd week of December to see if the Lord provides all we need to go to Haiti. We figured it would be too difficult to try to get to get to Haiti by Christmas. Our hearts are sad that we will not be a whole family for Christmas as Annecy and Isaiah will not be with us. But we know the Lord is with both of us and we want to be together on the Christmas that He puts us together on and not to force something that is not of Him. Please pray that God will give us the words to tell Annecy and Isaiah we will not be able to be with them on Christmas and that he will comfort all of our hearts as we wait for another year to spend our first Christmas together as a complete family.

We put up our Christmas tree and Kenya and Elijah made their count down chain for Christmas,

Kenya lost her front tooth and we are anxiously awaiting a visit from Grandpa Davis.

We wish all of you a wonderful Holiday Season full of Jesus' love and compasion. I hope that you don't get too busy to remember the reason we celebrate.