Happy Girls

 These are two very happy girls with their happy Pepaw.  We sold Caroline and Lee Lee's dollhouse back in Rifle, and they understood the reason why.  We discussed it with them and we told them it was very possible they could get a new dollhouse when we moved to Rangely.

Fastforward 7 months and 2 moves later, Lee Lee got a dollhouse for Christmas, and Caroline got dolls for Christmas, and Pepaw and Daddy spent several hours last night putting the house together.

These girls are incredibly excited about the new house and the new dolls to go with it -- and it gets to be in their bedroom!

Baptisms

 We had an incredibly busy weekend over the 4th of July -- Rifle, Rangely, Vernal... picnics, swimming, fishing, a parade, a cheerleading performance, bounce houses... and the highlight... our three oldest were baptized!

We feel incredibly blessed that our three oldests made the public declaration to be baptized.

The Battle Belongs

Almighty fortress, You go before us
Nothing can stand against the power of our God
You shine in the shadow, You win every battle
Nothing can stand against the power of our God

Message For Now

 My sister-in-law gave us a light-up message board sign for Christmas to hang on our wall.

I change the message on it every other month or so.

Coming into this Spring, this is our message for now:

Merry Christmas!

 We had a Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

 

Our Family Christmas

 We had a wonderful family Christmas.  The kids are not allowed to go downstairs in the morning until we all go down together as a family.

Our kids exchanged names and bought presents for a Secret Sibling, and those presents all went under our "kids tree" and presents from Mama and Daddy and Santa went under our big tree.  That way our children open the presents from each other first and can thank each other before the gifts from mom and dad and Santa.

Here are some photos from the day -- and yes, we stayed in pajamas ALL DAY!