The Gifts of Christmas:

Merry Day after Christmas ya'll!! I wanted to share a few moments from our Christmas day. Unfortunatley, I hadn't charged my camera battery, so I missed a few special moments, but here are some I did catch:
1st: The great game opening:
Next: I had an idea in early December for a gift for Josh. I ordered it right away, but it wasn't sent for a week after. Those Jewish people don't seem to understand the Christmas rush! ;-) So I made Josh a unique little card:
Yup: A cut-out jewish dude
And inside was a "Tallit" or prayer shawl to put on him. Josh loved the card and gift idea. he even thanked me for thinking of him in purchasing a gift he hadn't asked for (although he said he thought of it) but really wanted!!
Luke had meticulously saved ALL his birthday and Christmas money planning to buy a guitar. Little did he know I had secretly ordered the one he wanted so he had it for Christmas. he was pretty creative with his picture taking of the Seagull mini-jumbo acoustic electric

I hear Zuri got alot of dolls for Christmas. Charlie and I bought her a very life-like little doll that comes with accessories and says 28 phrases, giggles, and cries, depending on how you hold her and which accessory she is using. Even I want to play with that doll!!Hosanna enjoyed her keyboard from super grandma. Zuri had a giant horse from super grandmaAnd Josh's brother Matt particularly enjoyed his Disney princess collection:

Christmas CookiesI

I have made these same cookies since my youth.. back when my favorite cookie cutter was a fancy reindeer cookie! The tradition continues:Luke made a santa-ish thing out of dough

The C-Zone 4 Lukes B-day

Saturday night we hung out at the "C-Zone" or "CornerZone" where Hannah is getting a coffee shop ministry going in connection with Youth For Christ. It is right across the street from our house.. so how much fun is that? Son-in -law Josh and son-of-an-old-friend Seth were among the acoustic offerings provided

Luke chillin' and listening to the music with friends

then we surprised Luke with cake for all:We sang to Luke:

luke sang to us:
Happy Birthday Luke!!!

catching up...

First; Hannah bought Renee a lady bug outfit. Pretty.. uh, cute, huh?

And equally cute was Zuri and Hosanna at our first visit to Marquettes Childrens Museum. We played grocery store for a while: Zuri had fun playing drums

Hosanna was a little uncertain when Mr. Turtle came out to greet her:

And she got to slide down a tongue. How much fun is that??!!

We also got to attend Lukes first wrestling meet with Marquette. He had two great matches.

Its blurry but I had to add it: The Winner!!