photos! weird, words all over!

 the children christmas afternoon.  some did jps all day…ah.  the children surprised us with a play acting out the christmas story from the bible!  It was precious and thoughtful.  Thank you children!

photos from Disney.  I told you Luke didn’t like it so much…I got to meet Sonia, a blog friend over at His Hands, His feet, cheaper by the half dozen.  Look at her 3 from China and my 3 from China.  Two of her boys and Lainee and Zinnia are from the same orphanage!  Aren’t they precious?  We met up at our hotel and went out to eat after swimming.then Christmas came a few days later!  This photo was taken Christmas morning.  Luke’s first Christmas.  I really don’t like christmas trees and my family doesn’t like to decorate them.  So, i did it all by myself this year.  Boys brought the tree in on christmas eve, mom decorated it and even did the lights.  Bam, Christmas morning shortly after the last gift was opened…down fell my tree.  Perfect, “take it away!!”  I had put all the lights and ornaments on, well you get the idea…up, down, done. the back of that tree was naked…”duh!”this is luke floored after getting a bike for his birthday 2 days after christmas.  it was so fun to surprise him.  He lay on the ground and cried! and cried.  it was amazing for us all to watch his reaction.the girls and their friend, sunday brunch6 of the children are playing basketball right now.  Luke loves every minute.  He used grandparent christmas money to buy bball shoes, his first purchase and this week he learned how to tie his shoes!!

Chris got to take the older 3 boys to ski for a long weekend.  I was so happy for them.  Luke was terrified to sleep in his room alone, so he slept on the floor next to me each night.  I could hardly take my eyes off of him.  I got teary.  He’s a gift.oh boy, watch out!jonah and christopher at our favorite mexican place out west.  Boy, I missed my guys.  It was strange having just the girls and Luke. Our group seemed so much smaller!  Elizabeth and I took them ice skating and out to eat and to a movie.  ”Are all 5 of these children yours?”  ”Yes, they are all mine and there are five different fathers” (hee, hee)  oh! the scandal, the rumors, the shock.  ha hamy new nephew and niece!  woo hoo!my brother sent me this photo from the day they went to court in Ghana, they have to take the children with them.  His little girl was wearing this dress.  ”laura”oooo, sweet.

sunday morning all in black and white

chris and I last weekend heading to his work (post)Christmas party.  Thanks for continuing to pray for this boy called Abel in Ethiopia.  i will keep you posted.

God loves you

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