Wonderful Christmas

No matter what I knew this was going to be a great Christmas. Really how could it not be? We have had the most amazing 3+ months of our life. No matter what our Christmas was going to be awesome. And as expected it was.

Faith in her pretty little dress! She was so slippery cuz it was velvet :)

After church on Christmas Eve we spent the night at my mom's house eating lots of delicious food and spending time together. My family decided not to do gifts with one another this year and instead sponsor a family for Christmas. So we put all our gift money into a family in need and guess what> Our Christmas was still wonderful! You don't need gifts at all to make a holiday fun and enjoyable. In fact I appreciated it more without gifts. And of course Faith got LOTS and LOTS of gifts and also got her Grandparents a calendar with pictures of her on it. We also had a surprise package containing gifts to do a White Elephant exchange. It was mainly gag gifts, coat hangers, bottle opener, etc, but we said next year we would do a real one.

Faith and Daddy before church

Faith and Mommy before church ( she did awesome by the way and just LOVED the music)


Faith as I said got lots and lots of presents including a tennis racket from her Papa! So darn cute! She also got a hand knitted hat, books, ( including " The Best for You" which brought me to tears) a glow worm, a learning puppy, Baby Ei.stein DVD's and lots more I can't even remember! Let me tell you this little girl is loved! Not because she got a million gifts but because she has so many people around her loving her and giving her the best! I feel so grateful Faith is a part of our family! She brought us a joy we had never known until the day we brought her home.

Faith with her new tennis racket from her Papa!

Opening her first gift

Her hand knit hat

She loves her glow worm

Christmas morning we had just a mini family Christmas with me, Hubby and Faith. Then my parents came over and we made waffles and bacon and opened up some more gifts. Then that night we went to my Aunt's and had lasagna and played Taboo. It was so fun playing the game and a really good way to get everyone involved in the game!


This is my favorite picture from Christmas look at her smile :) And everything in her mouth as usual!
( You may see a nick name for Faith here and that's OK, I'm not keeping her real name a huge secret I just don't want it to be googled or anything, specially until finalization. After finalization I will probably put her full real name on the blog once but I will always refer to her as Faith on the blog. Plus the name you see above isn't her full name its her nickname...If you really wanna know you can email me)

We ended the night at home playing New Super Mario Brothers for Wii and thanking God for the wonderful Christmas gift He gave us on September 4th.

Also I forgot to mention on Christmas Day Faith wore her little hunting outfit. Grandpa Don got her a little onesie for her shower and she finally fit into it! We thought she could sport it on Christmas and boy was Grandpa Don proud to see her in that!

Can you even find her? She is camouflaged :)


This year we decided to stay home for New Years. We were invited a few places and even made some plans but in the end we have decided to just have a night at home, just the 3 of us, welcoming in the New Year and thanking the Lord for the blessings of 2009.

2009 has definitely been our year...In fact I would say the last 5 years have easily been the best of my life. And if 2010 brings even half the joy of 2009 I know we will be just fine.