What a great Christmas!

We have a spoiled little girl! She got so much for Christmas! She got lots of big gifts this year for Christmas. She got a pirate ship house, a wagon, and a tricycle. All from the Grandparents! We got her megablocks and some books. She got a whole bunch of other stuff too. She surprised us, by actually playing with the toys more than the boxes! Although, she loved sticking the bows on her and the stickers that we placed on all of her packages. Despite having a fever, she really enjoyed the whole day and was in a great mood. I was really afraid that she would be overwhelmed, but she took the whole thing in and loved every minute of it. And this was all on Saturday.

On Christmas day we went to Grandpa and Grandma Crum's. It was a good time. Santa Claus brought her a really cool chair. We exchange names every year, this year Aunt Kathy and Uncle Danny had Emma's name. They hooked her up with a really cool nursery ryme book library set and a dolly.

I had my mom's name and made her a quilt and hot pads. I am really proud how well it came out, but probably won't ever do another one!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is almost a week away. It will be so much fun watching Emma tear open the paper and play with the boxes (not the toys, just the boxes). We all know that kids like the boxes the toys come in more than the toys themselves. Here's a few Christmas pictures that we had taken. It is very hard to decide which is my favorite they are all very cute!

I'm trying really hard this year to keep the focus of Christmas on Christ, rather than getting caught up in the hustle and bustle. We are tight on money this year, so lots of gifts are being made instead of bought. I never knew I could be so crafty, and all of it is pretty cool too! So each time I'm making an item, I really try to pray for the person I'm making it for. Please remember that this is Christ's birthday, an awesome holiday to celebrate Jesus! Let's not forget to do that this year.

Jeremiah Thane

Congratulations to Andy and Nichole! Jeremiah was born Dec 6. What an adorable little boy!

Christmastime

It's Christmastime already. We finished decorating the house this afternoon during Emma's nap. Our last thing to do was to put up the tree. We put up the outside lights last weekend when it was warm. Now it's 24 degrees and we are so thankful that we put them up when it was 60 degrees! We really contemplated where we would put our tree this year. It's so hard when Emma wants to touch and explore everything new, so we knew that we would be setting her up for failure if we put it where she could touch it. We ended up putting it in the front office area where we have it blocked off with a gate. We can still enjoy it's beauty, but Emma can't touch it. When Emma got up this afternoon, she discovered the tree. She thought it was really cool. Immediately she went into the other room and gathered some toys and handed them to her daddy to put on the tree. She kept going back and getting more toys to put on the tree. It was sooo cute! She wanted to contribute to the decorating of the tree. I guess she thought if Mommy and Daddy can have their pretties on the tree, so can she.

It's starting to snow tonight, it's light and fluffy. So pretty. But cold!

Emma is getting to be so much fun. Tonight she was making Ohhh faces at Grandma and laughing and kissing. When I was rocking her for bedtime she kept kissing and hugging me, it was so sweet. I love when she's that sweet. The other day I came home and Daddy was pushing her around in a diaper box piled with toys on top of her. How fun was that!

We recently changed to a different family Dr. The reason we were at this Dr.'s office was because of an awesome Dr. that ended up moving to Terre Haute. So, by default we stayed at this Dr.'s office and was adopted by another Dr. So, this Dr. told us that Emma shouldn't get a flu shot because she wasn't at "high risk". Later I learned that the CDC recommends that all children 6 months to 6 years get a flu shot. This Dr.'s office has done other things that I have not been happy with as well, so it was time for a change. I love our new Dr., she seems like she really knows what she's talking about. I love having a Dr. that I trust and am happy to go to.
So, needless to say Emma got her first dose of flu shot last week and will get the second dose right after Christmas. She didn't even cry when she got the shot, such a tough girl!

"I like Big Bibles"

The children's ministry at the Lighthouse put on a dinner theatre to raise money for Christmas Presents for Basher Home, a juvenile facility. The youth participated and did the rap "I like Big Bibles" (to the tune of "I like Big Butts") As you can see, Jerrod was the big Bible. They did an awesome job! It was very funny! And all of them were really into it!