Christmas at our house

This year Christmas day was very low key. We attended our church Christmas Eve service and opened presents that night then we stayed up late playing with our goodies. Christmas day we spent the morning watching movies and playing candyland. Then we drove to College Station with Jose's family to visit Santas Wonderland. If you haven't heard of it is a huge drive through Christmas light village. At the end you have the option to go to Santas village where they have a Christmas movie playing and little shops to buy Texas themed Christmas stuff. (I was a bit underwhelmed by the village but the lights were well worth the drive) 

I just want to take a moment to thank all of our friends and family that are supportive of our ministry (in word, action, and spirit) You mean more to us than we can easily express and we thank God for you every day. Please continue to keep us in prayer as we are right now in the tedious part of preparing to go. Gathering financial support, working out details of accepting/receiving that support. Making out a written mission statement, plan. Also for me learning spanish. (If you live near me and you speak spanish harrass me about it. I need help staying motivated about my lessons)

I will leave you with Logans version of the Christmas story and some pictures of this past month.
"Once upon a time baby Jesus and his mommy and daddy went to the farm to live. But there was nowhere for them to live and nobody would let them live in their house so they slept in the hay with the animals. Then the bad Angel took all of baby Jesus' clothes. So his daddy killed the angel. Then the bad king killed all the baby's so Baby Jesus mommy put him in a basket in the water. The Princess found him and he was the King so all the other kings gave him presents."
(I am not making that up he told me that exact story)

Logan and his cousin Domenico

Logan and his cousin Sophia (He loves spending time with her)

Our silly little family

Logan and Daddy decorating the Christmas Tree

Logan hard at work

Timothy "helping"

If daddy gets out of the car Timothy jumps in the drivers seat a.s.a.p.

     

~ Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime! ~

I love Christmastime! Since I live in Houston (for now) I can't say anything about snow. ~although we did get some this year~ But I love the sounds and the smells. The Food. The baking. The gifting. The Food. The family time. The lights. The food. The picking out that special thing for that special someone. Did I mention the food? I could go on and on about everything I love about Christmas and the Holiday season. However there is something I'm not so fond of this time of year. Because we are Christians we love hearing the mention of Christ whenever we buy groceries and seeing little pictures and statues and inflatable front yard thingies of what artists (also known as Chinese factory workers) think Jesus looked like when he was a baby. But the last year or two I've seen a lot of taking Christ out of Christmas. Which is not cool. But I've also seen a lot of Christians stop acting like Christians because of it. So here is my plea to God fearing men and women this year. If someone says Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings or nothing to you today, instead of getting all red in the face and Screaming "Don't you know what this "SEASON" is?!?! It's about JESUS you Jerk!" Try a kinder, gentler approach. Smile act like someone the happy holidayer might actually want to talk to and say "Merry Christmas!" if it is a waiter or someone you traditionally tip give them a bigger tip than normal and if you feel like you can do it from the bottom of your heart throw in a "God bless you!"

I'm just saying. If you weren't a Christian which example would you be more likely to listen to and possibly learn from?