Christmas 2010

I will do a summary of our Christmas all in one post.
I am even including a nice little video.
It includes a few of the Christmas activities such as

• making Rudolph puppets after attending the puppet show
• attending a little girls 'Christmas Tea'
• Christmas with family in Kentucky
• Christmas with family in North Dakota
• being snowed in at friends house in Fargo due to a blizzard (BTW, a thanks to the Sunderlins for let us stay extra time at their home during the blizzard!)
• Stopping in for breakfast with the Williams family in Lexington, KY before they went to church Sunday morning and us driving back to Atlanta, cutting our visit short to beat the snow before it hit Atlanta.
  

But what the video does not include is

• Me doing my moms and sisters Christmas shopping, then forgetting and leaving part of the presents in Georgia! ....So a lot of gifts handed out on Christmas Eve were "note cards" written on there what they will be receiving when I send the gifts up. ....But when I told mom, Jen, and Kris that I had left them in Georgia.....you know what? They did not complain. They were all very gracious and forgiving. They were kind and comforting with their words. I am very appreciative of their gentleness.
  

• Chad spending Christmas day driving from northern KY to Atlanta, GA and back again, by himself to pick up my passport. (yes that was the day we were suppose to be flying to ND from Cincinnati) Christmas Eve night I discovered my license was missing. After speaking with Delta for some time....the solution within our price range was to move our itinerary forward a day and pay the difference for flying out on the 26th instead of the 25th and for Chad to drive in the snow and some ice to ATL and back with my passport. Not having my license caused family in North Dakota to have to push their Christmas plans back a day, my husband spend his holiday on the road for 15 straight hours...and you know what, no one complained. Not once. How gracious is that?
  

I am very grateful to everyone responding to my mistakes with such love and kindness. It is such a blessing to me to experience such kindness. I have such a wonderful family that loves the Lord and shows His love through their lives. I am very blessed in many many ways.

Enjoy the video:

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Rose gets baptized

Here is a video of Rose's baptism. She accepted Christ as her Savior back in April. We kind of put off her baptism. Then in the fall she was asking everyday....when will she get to be baptized.
We were thinking about our options, when she asked to be baptized at Grandma and Grandpa's church in Kentucky. How could I say no to that! It is the church I was baptized in...the church Chad and I were married in. We love the pastor there, besides it was too cold to put her in the river down here, anyways. So it worked out lovely. Plus when her cousin, 9 year old Timothy, heard about it, he decided to get baptized with her. He had been putting off his baptism due to a fear of water. It all worked out nicely.
At the end of the video is a fuzzy picture of my whole family after the church service.

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