We are alive...sorry for my blogging absence :)

Well, to say the least, I have been busy with life and not busy with blogging it. Bummer! I'm sorry for the delay in posting. To save you lots of reading, I'm just going to post from Christmas and then start from there...ha!!

We had an awesome Christmas! Claire was very into Santa this year, even wanting to leave out cookies and milk for him. She slept well and was so excited to see her gifts under the Christmas tree on Christmas morning. Claire also more fully understood Jesus being born on Christmas. She wanted to hear every story we had about the real meaning of Christmas at our house. Every night before bed she wanted to be read a story about Jesus' birth and then after being read all of them several times was able to "read" the stories to us. Claire made us reawaken the excitement of Jesus' birthday within us! Our family made a birthday cake for Jesus again this year, and Blake enjoyed eating it :) We went to our annual Christmas Eve service at church and this year Claire held the candle at the end, and sang Silent Night with us. It's awesome to see how much she is really grasping, she reminds me often that she loves Jesus with her whole heart for her whole life. How sweet.....

Here are some pictures from our Christmas festivities, enjoy!!