Thursday, January 1, 2009

A Few Christmases - One at a Time...

We are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends! We not only have Tom's parents who live in town and my mom who travels from the other side of the state to see us, but we are the INCREDIBLY lucky recipients of what we call our children's surrogate grandparents. Kent and Ramona (or as we call them Papa Kent and Moma) are amazing friends of ours who have literally adopted our family and our children! They love us like we're their own. I can't tell you what a blessing they are to our family and we are deeply indebted to them. We love them with all of our hearts and can't say enough just how wonderful of a couple they are! We love you Moma and Papa Kent!! Thank you for an amazing Christmas!!

We have other Christmas celebrations that we will share within the next few days - FUN times!!!
Papa Kent and Abraham

Moma preparing our DELICIOUS meal - Pad Thai Chicken and Chicken and Mushroom Lettuce Wraps! She can cook!!

Look at this spread....

Abraham opening his gift - loved ripping the paper.

Moma looking so cute!

Love that face :)!

Posing in their new outfits and with their new basketball game - TOO fun!

Making a gingerbread house (we didn't wait the required 15 minutes and it started falling apart - but the kids loved it)!

Decorating the gingerbread house :)!

They got the kids these adorable new hats - can you get any cuter :)?!

Whitt insisted on wearing his helmet while playing in the snow - he said it kept the snow off of his head :)...

Look at that smile - love it!




6 comments:

Anonymous said...

so fun to see family pics! i love your braids too!! ;) what a blessing to have family close by, and other friends who take such good care of you.

Dawn said...

those hats are adorable!! so glad you had a wonderful christmas!!

Anonymous said...

I love all the pictures. You have a lot of snow and here we were on 80 degrees for Christmas, wearing tank tops. Go figure.

JonesEthiopia said...

Happy New Year, my friend!

Love the hats! We're back from our trip! Fun, fun, fun!

Eastiopians said...

Oh man, I love lettuce wraps! Yum! CUUUUTE family pic with the kids in those adorable hats! Sounds like you are surrounded by people who love year dearly...that is awesome!

Shelby said...

I love surrogate Grandparents!! Adorable pictures!