Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! If you're here because you saw our website address on our Christmas Card, welcome. Feel free to check earlier posts to find out what's been going on with us this year and to see more pictures of us than you've ever wanted to see.

( Just click on any of the slideshows to see full size pictures and browse through at your own pace.)

Christmas is great. No matter what circumstances you're in, Christmas comes along and its hard not to be joyful. It's a good reminder for us as Christians because that's how we should always live our lives. No matter what the worldly circumstances, Christ came to earth, lived a sinless life, and died for our sins to save us and give us eternal purpose. That's something to continually be joyful for no matter the circumstances, and that's why we celebrate.

Here's some pictures of our trip to "Zoo Lights" at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium.

We have a Tree!

Last weekend we went to pick out our Christmas tree. We didn't cut one down ourselves, and we didn't just buy one at the grocery store. We met the event halfway and went to a fruit stand/farm. Still in the mud, but no saws around Benjamin. Perfect.

It was a lot of fun. It was Emma's first Christmas tree shopping experience and she did fantastic. Benjamin, for whatever reason, wanted to do nothing but throw rocks at the white flocked trees...and drive the tractor, and run around the enormous wooden snowman that spit out snow from his mouth.

To top it all off, after we got home with the tree, it snowed and after we decorated we got to play in the quickly melting winter wonderland.

Check out the pictures below. If you click on the slideshow you can see full size images and skip around to the ones you want to see.

Benjamin's 2nd Birthday!

We'll be posting a brief re-cap of the day very soon (or days I should say).  Until then, enjoy the pictures.