Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I'd like to wish you all a late Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 It's nice to take some time off school to spend time with the family and appreciate all the Lord has done for us.
You know I've come to realize that I'm really kind of a Grinch when it comes to Christmas... all the decorating/shopping mobs/holiday spirit stuff just bugs me ha-ha... I'd rather slow down, focus on God & not celebrate a worldly Christmas at all.

 Overall we had a good Christmas, then celebrated Christian's 14th birthday on the 30th, then new years where we stayed up all night watching Chuck Norris kick butt in Walker The Texas Ranger!

Some pictures from Christmas Morning:

 Jeremiah was the "trash man" haha



 Elijah wondering what in the world he's going to do with a tie!

RUN... it's the child catcher! 
(If you've ever seen Chitty Chitty bang bang you'll get how funny this is)

Elijah's face when he opened his BIG gift... a motorized Thomas the Train track set! 
He LOVES Thomas :D

Thank you Lord for how you've blessed us this year :)

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  1. UnknownJanuary 5, 2014 at 5:47 PM

    Hi Haley! I nominated you for Liebster award. Go to my blog to see the questions.
    -Ava

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  2. AshlinMarch 16, 2014 at 6:20 PM

    I awarded you over at my blog too! Congrats!
    And I've seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - the pic of you dad is hilarious!

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