Christmas night we were at Paul and Autumn's.
We caught up on a little birthday celebration for Carter as well!
Christmas Eve we went to our church service and then Aubrey helped us watch the 2 year olds during the following service. On the way home we were exhausted so we stopped and picked up a little Chinese to have for our late dinner!
We were in MS last week. Here are our kids with some of Rusty's cousin's kids.
It's all about cookies on Christmas Eve. Let's bake, decorate and give them away!
Here are our kids with their only first cousins! We had a great time together!
Aubrey and Caroline with the finished product!
Movie time in MS!
Stephanie and Caroline helped us make snow globes and we also decorated ornaments.
Playing in the drawer is always fun!
Our first stop in MS was in Vaiden. We went to Rusty's grandmother's and gathered with LOTS of family there!
Rusty and his brothers.
As we drove up to Ma Maw's house this turkey greeted us in the road. We took a few pictures and as we began to drive it ran after our car. Come to find out it is the neighbor's pet! The kids loved it!
On Carter's birthday we decorated a Gingerbread house!It was a great gift from an Aunt and Uncle!
Anyone up for a little Trouble?
As we were winding down the Christmas season it was great to relax with my parents and brother and sister-in-law yesterday. We all attended church together (it has been a long time since that has happened) and then Paul and Autumn invited us to eat at PHOPS (Paul's House of Pancakes and Sausage)... hopefully IHOP won't make him change his name-HA! It was a great meal. We watched a little of the Titans and then played a little Guitar Hero. As we sat by the fire last night it was a quiet moment. Every year we say it is going to be more about Jesus and every year it is so easy to push him aside. As the New Year quickly approaches we ask ourselves what will we do differently all year to invite the Lord into all we do. This quote has crossed our paths a couple of times this Christmas. It is definitely worth thinking about.....“The only safe rule” by C.S. Lewis
“In the passage where the New Testament says that every one must work, it gives as a reason ‘in order that he may have something to give to those in need.’ Charity– giving to the poor– is an essential part of Christian morality: in the frightening parable of the sheep and the goats it seems to be the point on which everything turns.Some people nowadays say that charity ought to be unnecessary and that instead of giving to the poor we ought to be producing a society in which there were no poor to give to. They may be quite right in saying that we ought to produce this kind of society. But if anyone thinks that, as a consequence, you can stop giving in the meantime, then he has parted company with all Christian morality.
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusement, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our giving does not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say it is too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our commitment to giving excludes them.”
–C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1952/2001), 86.
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEW YEAR!
1 comment:
I love the pic with all the cousins, it's always a hard one to get. All those little ones to sit still and smile.....
Lisa
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