Christmas 2017 books

Christmas brought new additions to 

our home library. 

Some of our already loved authors included...

Jean Craighead George, Eve Bunting, 

Linda Sue Parks, Andrew Peterson, Jonathon Rogers

Shannon Hale, Patricia MacLachlan

Julia Donaldson, Edna Walker Chandler

Cowboy Sam books aren't easy to get. 

These were gifted to

Render from his sweet KK!

Christmas 2017 Gaitz

He worked hard this summer to buy this

 horse and Santa brought them a saddle.

Mel brought his 

roping dummy which entertained

him while Slick the horse 

took a rest. 

Christmas 2017 Render

For one of his two wishes Render asked

for Gertie to get a dog bed, so sweet and thoughtful!

His other wish was for a drone but Santa 

had a little surprise.....a desk.

He was thrilled! He has 

been making pretend desks in his room 

for about a year now. 

firefly drone

on the phone telling his KK

Christmas 2017 Ballet shoes

A ballet bar, leotards, and shoes.

Lots of twirling, pointing 

and giggling. 

A Christmas Pony 2017

Sometimes dreams really do come true!

Archie, our elf, left a note telling Merritt 

to take good care of his friend! He also said

that Macaroni refused to 

come inside. It was a cold dash

to the barn in the dark but ended in a wonderful

SURPRISE!

cold, cold,cold and dark....

So I must admit he is a DOLL!!

The sweetest pony I have ever met!

Merritt and her Daddy taking a little trail ride. 

Yankee Doodle went to town. 

Riding on a pony.

Stuck a feather in his hat 

and called it Macaroni!!

Christmas Play part2

Christmas Play Part 1

Last year the kids performed a Thanksgiving play...

this year was a Christmas Pageant.

It was sweet and holy, the gathering

of friends, the carols praising our

Lord and Ezra's solo was enough

to bring tears to your eyes!+

Camp Jekyll Beach Study

So this trip will forever be ingrained in 

my mind. Our guide set us up for fishing between 

the shore and a little ripple of a tide pool behind.

QUICKLY the tide came in and left us all standing 

on a sand bar. Even in the wind and cold our

kids (and parents) were so EASY... taking off shoes,

rushing around gathering equipment, 

laughing at each other, carrying people 

across the ocean on their backs.

WHAT A GREAT GROUP OF FOLKS! 

wish I had more pictures of people being carried!

sometimes thigh high water!