Yay! Holidays!

It's been a little while since I posted, so we have lots of pictures! Yay!

We will do the most exciting news first! On November 19th, in the Whatcom County Superior Court Gaspard Chancy and Anthionine Petitome officially became Isaiah Gaspard Scheffer and Annecy Anthionine Hope Scheffer. Even though this happened already in our hearts over 10 long years ago, the papers are now official. Here is a picture of everyone in their smiles, after Mom had a good cry while signing the papers. Following the court appointment they had a reception for all of the adoptive families that had their papers finalized that day and they had lots of sugar, presents and most importantly a really funny balloon man. Her are all of the kids sporting their balloon decor.

We hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving sharing it with family and friends. Ours was wonderful, we got to share it with lots of friends and followed the dinner up with a Wheeler/Scheffer re-enactment of the original Thanksgiving! Here are some pictures of our little Pilgrims coming over on the Mayflower and the Indians saying goodbye to Squanto (the pilgrims look very similar to the indians).

And finally we have a picture of all of our kids together for Christmas time. They all had so much fun putting up the tree and all of the Christmas decorations together. When Elijah was still in the womb, Mom made felt stockings for all of the kids with their names on them. For the last 8 years we have hung Isaiah and Annecy's stocking with all of the others, in faith that they would be home the next year to use them. This year our faith came to fruition. They were so excited to hang them on the mantle and know that this year they would get filled with goodies like all the rest.

All together a pretty productive and blessed couple of weeks. We pray your holiday season holds the same and we'll miss seeing you that are far away, but know we love you just the same.