Here are some pictures of Granny’s birthday and our church’s Christmas Cantata. Both events made for a busy weekend on Dec.12-13!
This is during rehearsal and that is why I am still wearing my jeans… :)
Then here is the choir singing the next day, Sunday, at our church in Lubbock:
Just some random dancing in our Christmas jammies!
A local church in Lubbock had a really special night were you could come celebrate the real meaning of Christmas, which of course is Jesus coming down to earth as a tiny baby for each one of us. All this past month Cayden has made sure to remind us of that fact….”Momma, do you know what the best part about Christmas is?? It’s Jesus coming to save us!!!”
I really enjoyed this night we got to spend as a family. We have been trying to lessen the importance of Santa and celebrate Jesus’ birthday instead and this night really helped us to do that.
Avery’s favorite part was visiting Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus (which was a real baby…don’t get me started on how cold it was out there and how I was concerned the whole time about that tiny baby out in the cold!!) Seeing them was all Avery wanted to do, so we made several trips back to the stable to see “Eesus”.
Cayden got to ride a camel:
Making a clay pot:
They were supposed to be writing the Greek alphabet, but Cayden stuck with the alphabet he knows….Avery, well, she mainly enjoyed just dipping the stick in the ink. They did get to pick what color wax and stamp they wanted to seal it with which they enjoyed.
Making a nativity scene:
Making flour from grain:
Making leather bracelets:
The lady put on a special glove so that Avery could use the hammer:
Making a “fishing net”:
Our friends, Michael and Rebecca invited us to come to their house one night to eat and hang out. There was a special visitor, Santa that dropped by. It was our sweet friend from church, Jim and we could tell that Cayden knew it was him because he was so at ease and comfortable with him. Avery, on the other hand, was not so thrilled, but she didn’t cry! :)
We went on the Polar Express the next night with the Tranthams (Anthony, Nancy, Rylee and Ryker) and we wore our jammies and ate “breakfast” at Cracker Barrel before we got on the train. Nancy and I even wore pjs, but Anthony and Damon wouldn’t do it with us…those party-poopers!
Cayden and Ryker playing checkers:
Damon and I were blessed to get a fun quick trip to Dallas the first weekend in December with our good friends, Anthony and Nancy Trantham. We went shopping at the Grapevine Mills Mall and the Galleria and went to see “The Blind Side”(If you haven’t seen it, you really need to… it is wonderful). We ate lots of great food and had tons of fun! Here are some pictures from our trip.
Eating at my favorite restaurant, The Grand Lux:
A beautiful tree at the Galleria Mall:
We went to the Gaylord Texan to see “ICE”:
They gave you these enormous coats to wear because it was 9 degrees!
