Milestones

In January, our youngest grand-daughter celebrated her first birthday. It's hard to believe that just a year ago I was enjoying this little girl as a newborn. Time goes by so quickly! We loved you little one, and wish you lived closer by. We are so thankful that we can skype with you so often and see you growing up. 

 A couple of days later, our oldest grand-daughter celebrated her 4th birthday. 

It seems impossible to think that this little princess has already been in our lives for four years. What a change  these little girls have brought into our family of boys! 

We pray that God would continue to bless our children and grandchildren as they grow and mature. May they always love Jesus and remain faithful in serving Him alone.

Family Christmas

We celebrated our family Christmas on December 30th this year. It was the only time that all of the boys and their families could be here. We had a very fun and memorable time. These are just random pics of the 4 great days that we spent together...all fifteen of us!

We even managed to get a pretty nice family photo! (Bribery with chocolate does wonders!)

 The day after our family Christmas celebration, we celebrated New Year's Eve together. The grandkids loved all the noise makers (at 6PM!) 

 Her first New Year's celebration.

Since we also had two family birthdays (Dec 31st and Jan 2nd), we threw in a birthday cake on New Year's Eve also. We loved having the whole gang together to celebrate!

 Birthday boy...

Birthday girl.

We love our boys so much and the beautiful women that they have married, and now our wonderful grandkids that have entered the family. God is so good to us, and we praise Him! 

Christmas

I'm sure that all of you have given up on me and thought that I'd stopped posting. Well, actually I had stopped...simply because I had lost my password and couldn't get back into my blog! Last week, in the process of clearing off some piles of papers in the office, I found this note that brightened my day and now I am back in business again. And very far behind! So I will try to quickly recap what has been happening in our family the past three month--very busy three months!

 It seems out of place now, just a week away fro Easter, but this was a familiar scene as we drove around the streets of town back in December. 

 On Christmas Eve we drove to Pasadena to be together with Jim's cousin and her family for their Christmas celebration. Their daughter from snowy-cold North Dakota was able to travel home for the holidays.

 We were served a delicious meatball supper made in Penny's cozy kitchen.

 The had invited Chuck's brother and sister and their families for the evening. Since it had been years since Jim had seen them, he had alot of catching up to do.

Penny's niece was visiting for the holidays also, and she was brave enough to try Lutefisk for the first time!

 Chuck was the MOC for the evening program of singing, skits, stories and recitations. 

 These three guys recited the entire 139th Psalm from memory. We pray that they will always treasure God's Word! 

We closed the evening with storytime and sharing of gifts. It was such a blessed evening of fellowship and fun with family and friends.