Christmas program

These are some pictures of our Christmas program practice. The program went very well. Some people said it was the best Christmas program that they've ever been too, which blows my mind. God definatley blessed it, that's for sure! The angels looked so cute, they had a little button where when they held on to it their wings twinkled, and during the acutal program it was really dark,(we had a spotlight), so it looked really cute. There was one more little angel, she is 3 ,but had to leave before this picture was taken. She is so cute, she really looks like an angel in real life. Also, right after this picture was taken, Mikayla fell off her perch. They are standing on a table. Jeff and I laughed and laughed that one of our angels "fell from grace!" She even knocked the whole wall of the set down! Luckily she wasn't hurt and the set was fixed easily. That's our Mikayla!
This is Mary and Joseph in the manger at Bethleham. Jenna was Mary. We had originally planned on Mary to actually ride in on a live donkey, but the owners of the donkey got scared that it wouldn't be tame enough. Maybe next year!

This past weekend was so busy. On Saturday we had Christmas program practice at church. That was from 10-noon, then Haley had a party at noon, (which she was late for). I dropped Haley off at her party and then had to go and buy a present to take back to the party. I ran to Wal-Mart quickly got a present and took it back to the party. (Luckily I know that mother well, and she understood how frazzled I was!) I then went back to the church for another couple hours to help ready things for the program. I then went and picked up Mikayla who was at a church friends house, then went and got Haley. We went home...oh actually we dropped off a birthday party invitation off at a little girls house for Mikayla's party this Sat. and in the driveway Haley and I both wiped out on the ice!!! So...then we went home, we were home for about 20 mins. and Haley and Mik got picked up to go to a movie with some church friends...I could go on and on and talk about how I had to get Jenna home from mall so she could babysit (her first job!!!) and then Jeff and I had a dinner meeting with Jeff's pastoral coach, and our life coach, from Indiana. All in all...by the time Haley and Mik got into bed that night they were both crying because they were exhausted!!! Jeff and I were too!

Sunday was busy too. We had our first ever 2 service Sunday!!! We had sent out mailers into the community to advertise our service. We had a 9:30 and an 11:00 service. Between both services there were 150 people!!!!!!!!! Our best ever!!! We had several new families and even went out to eat with one of them afterwards, we didn't get home until 3:00! Haley and Mikayla and Mik's friend Cole played outside in the snow from 3-5, and it was cold, but I couldn't get them to come inside. Oh well, it was peaceful inside. I even took a nap.

Even though it was such a busy weekend, we are really pumped about our Sunday service! 150!!! Wow!!! That is the best service we've ever had. Can you believe we have almost been here 7 years? We moved when Mik was about 6 weeks old, and she will turn 7 in 4 days! Unbelievable! It has been such a journey! A hard journey, but a worthwhile one.

p.s. Christmas cards might be late, but you'll get them! Our Christmas letter will be posted on this blog this year. So soon, I will have a year recap on here.