Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve we met my parents, Jesse and Allie and Allie's family for a wonderful church service at People's church.

Here are two of my favorite little people in the whole world...

 After church, we went and visited our friends house who live in Holiday Lane and has snow on their yard.  Aubrey Rose loved it.

 Then, we met for dinner with Blake's family.  I loved how Blake, his dad and Austin all wore argyle sweater.  They looked so cute together.  :)

 Aubrey Rose loves sitting on her Big Papa's lap.  :)

The night before Christmas....

Her daddy LOVES Santa, therefore Aubrey Rose does too.  :)

 They sprinkled Reindeer food on the grass that she got from her preschool.

They left cookies and milk.  This was definitely my first time preparing for Santa, so Daddy showed all of us how to do this.   :) 

 And extra kisses for daddy.

The next morning, on Christmas morning, we had to wake Aubrey Rose up and as she was stretching so big, the first thing she said was, "Did he eat the cookies and milk????"  HA!!  Oh, our little girl was soooo excited!

Cousin time

One of my favorite parties every Christmas is our cousin get together on Blake's side of the family.  I love it.  This year Blake and I hosted.  Between all of us there were about 15 kiddos with the oldest being about 7.  We just let the kids go wild, running all over the house.  I am not sure who had more fun, the little cousins or us big cousins!  It is so fun growing old with people you love.  

Such a sweet gift...

Austin has had quite an eventful couple of weeks.  Two weeks ago he had NO teeth.  Now he is working on FOUR!  Two on top and two on bottom.  Here you can see the bottom a little bit.

But, that is not the only thing Austin has been working on around here!  On Christmas day, he had only taken 1, MAYBE 2 steps.  On the 26th, (which was the day before his 10 month birthday) he took 13 steps!!!  This boy is going to be walking so soon!

This little boy was definitely one of my favorite gifts this Christmas!

Woods Christmas Party

A couple of weekends before Christmas, we were able to join the Woods' Christmas Party.  Wow!  What a wonderful party!  Thank you Mike and Susan for the invite and for doing all you do to make it such a FUN party!  We loved it!

Here is the Woods family...

Here are all the kiddos that got to join in the Santa fun...

 It all started with Grandma Susan reading a story to the kids, when there was a knock on the door...

 SANTA came!!

 Santa read a story to them and then he...

read through his list and handed out presents to each of the kids.

Here is Aubrey Rose receiving her gift...

 She was so happy and has talked about Santa every day since.

 Santa gave her a princess toy.  After she opened it, she told me, "I dreamed about this Mommy!!"

 Austin LOST it anytime he would come near Santa.  WOW!  Not a fan yet!  HA!

 My favorite part of the party is when they reenact the story of baby Jesus.  So cute!  Blake and Blair were in last years performance HERE.

This year, Aubrey Rose was an angel.  She fluttered her wings perfectly.  :)  It was so cute having the little ones in the performance this year!

 We had a wonderful night with friends and...

 sweet family.

Thanks again Woods' Family!

Christmas continues...

Today we are celebrating Christmas with my parents and our Penner extended family.  We hope you are having a wonderful holiday!

Merry Christmas to YOU!

We want to wish you and your family a VERY, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!  We hope you are able to sit back, relax a little,

spend time with your wonderful family,

and most of all, we pray you are able to focus on the reason for the season. 

Happy Birthday Jesus!

 

We praise the Lord, our God, for giving us His only Son, who died on the cross for our sins, so we may live and have everlasting life with God, our Father.

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

Isaiah 9:6

Praise be to God!!  Merry Christmas!!

Santa Clause is coming...

We are VERY anxious and excited over here!!  We can't believe Christmas is TOMORROW, which means Santa is coming to town!!!  Sooooo exciting!