That one time when my baby rolled over....

Picture this: 2 am Wednesday morning. I hear Ben start to whine a little and it's time to feed him, so I go in to his room. Little did I know that he would be laying on his BACK! He rolled over! What in the world? Crazy kid. He hasn't done it again, but he was pretty chill about it that one time...

Christmas 2009

Christmas Eve we celebrated with our church. We had a great worship service and Spence shared the Christmas story with the children. Here are a couple quotes from him to the kids : after telling them about Gabriel telling Mary she was going to have a baby- “If you want to know why Mary was so surprised that she was having a baby, you should ask your parents”, and “we’ll call Caesar ‘The Man’ cause he was always keeping people down”. Jason Gaston preached an awesome sermon that was perfect for Christmas Eve.

Spence and the kids

Zeke had just dumped Baby Jesus out of his bed

Christmas morning Zeke decided he should wake up early as all children on Christmas do. Since we were up before 6, we decided to go ahead and get the day started. Zeke could have just taken two toys from his stocking and called it a day. We were able to get him to open some of his gifts. He really seemed to like the two “big” things we got him: a Little People farm and the Crayola drawing thing that makes music when you draw (he couldn’t quite get the drawing thing down though because he kept trying to dance to the music- too cute!)

4 Stockings!!!!

Our tree

Sweet Ben

Down on the farm

Early morning smile

Zeke took an early nap and then we headed to the Shelton household for lunch and the Little household for supper and staying the night. Zeke’s favorite toy was probably the bag of balls from Aunt Tori and Uncle Matt. Oh, another highlight was when Uncle Scott held Ben!! While at his Yaya and Pawpaw’s house he really enjoyed playing with his cousins- but I forgot to take any pictures of them being cute together. After a pretty rough night of very little sleep we hung out at my parents for the morning, then did Christmas with Pop (Spencer's grandpa) and the Shelton side of the family. (Once again, no pictures)

"Ball, ball, ball, ball, ball..."

Not sure who was more uncomfortable, hehe ;)

I think this Christmas was definitely a tough one between juggling two little ones, but we enjoyed it. It was wonderful to spend Christmas Eve with our church family and Christmas day with lots of family- grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. It was a whirlwind trip, and we are all exhausted, but we had a blast spending time with family. I am sure next year will be even more jam packed, but hopefully I will do a better job of taking pictures.

(oh and yes I am totally going to dress us back up sometime this week in our Christmas day attire and take a picture in front of our tree before we take it down. I at least have to get a photo of our family and we can just pretend it was Christmas day, right?)

Merry Christmas!

I feel that I would miss a great opportunity if I did not take a moment to share the reason we (Spence & I) celebrate Christmas. We join with fellow Christ followers to celebrate the birth of our Savior. Before you say anything, yes we know that He was probably not born December 25. We also know that if we only acknowledge Him once a year, that we are missing the point.

We believe that God became man and came to earth as a baby. We believe that He lived a perfect, sinless life. We believe that He died on a cross. We believe He rose again 3 days later. We believe He is seated in heaven. We believe all of these things were done because of God's love for us. It isn't merely that He did those things, but that they were done to save us from an eternity seperated from Him in hell.

We spend time reflecting on that daily. We read His Word in the Bible daily. We pray and meditate and seek His will for our lives daily. These are not things that we only do one day a year. We do set aside Christmas to really focus on the fact that God loves us so much that He came, lived, died, and rose again.

If we leave you with one thing on this day, our prayer is that you will come to know Christ personally. If you have questions or would like to know more, please contact us. We would love to talk to you more about this.

Best of...

Alright, I really really tried to stick this thing out. But I just really don't care about the best webtool, stationary or ad of the year. And those were the best ones coming up. So, maybe I'll try something else some other time. Thanks for sticking around for the boringness that this turned out to be. I do apologize for it.

Lil Helper

Zeke decided to help me wrap gifts. This is one of his gifts and I am guessing that this would be the only year that I can wrap his gifts with him there. He was a great helper:

Yup it's sturdy!

Yay!

Like this, Mama.

2 Years

2 years ago today we moved into our house. We as in Spencer and me. Yes, we moved in as a family of two. We had just found out we were pregnant. We had just chosen our puppy. We definitely did not see ourselves with two children and no dog two short years later. These past two years have been INSANE as homeowners. We definitely jumped into being "grownups" at warp speed. Here is a quick recap of the years:

Yay! Our house!

Family of almost three


Shamgar lived with us from January 2008-May 2009.
He now is happily residing at Spence's parents.

The Shelton Three

The current family that now fills the house that felt HUGE in December of 2007.

Best Start Up

My friend Erin's business The Peanut Paintshop takes the prize here. It is so cool to see this talen that Erin has that I had no clue about. If you haven't checked it out yuo really should. What better gift to give yourself or someone than something personal and handmade?