Waiting on one more present to be delivered.....

Enjoying the Holidays

Photo Session "Bloopers"

One thing for sure, these two girls have their own personalities, and they are NOT afraid to show them!!! I'm not sure if I felt sorry for them that day (because they were having a great time) or for Krisha (because she wanted one, just one, good photo for her Christmas card).

I love these "bloopers", because it represents these two perfectly! If you are having a bad day, just spend a few minutes with these two, they will make you smile, laugh, and remember what life is really about.

Merry Christmas

We hope everyone had a wonderful

 Christmas with family and friends.

Their favorite gifts from Pop Pop and Moma D

(Princess Ponies)

Preparing Christmas Shoe boxes

We have participated in the Samaritan's Purse, "Operation Christmas Child" for the last couple of years. We have always prepared special shoe boxes in honor of Aubrey and Lainey to be given to  little girls their own age.
However, this year, Krisha and I decided that the girls were old enough to prepare the boxes themselves. To help them understand what they would be doing , "You will be giving these presents to other little girls, you will not be keeping these presents", we let them watch a video of the African Children's Choir (click to watch video) on a Gaither's Christmas Video that also showed children in Africa being given shoe boxes by Bill and Gloria Gaither, with Franklin Graham.
Aubrey and Lainey still do not fully gasp the significance of what sending these gifts mean, but they did enjoy packing them and knowing that somewhere in the world, four little girls would be getting gifts from them that otherwise might not get a gift for Christmas.
When they were watching the videos, they even went to the TV screen and pointed to some of the little girls and said, "I want her to get my box".
We found out last week that the boxes went to Madagascar. There are four precious little girls around the world from us that have letters and handprints from two very, very special little girls here!