{Christmas Day Pictures}

Merry Christmas!

This week will be gone before it gets here. We are so busy; getting ready for Christmas is a task in itself for a mother, then add company and a trip to China, while simultaneously preparing your 3 children that are staying home to manage their own busy lives ( all 3 are playing basketball, which means daily practices and several games a week X 3 people)

This is when I say to myself...(BREATHE) and I remember why we are so busy, what the season is about and I become thankful for the busyness and the people in my life that have been supportive of our family. My children had over 20 families in church yesterday offer their support 24/7 while we travel to meet our daughter and their sister. I have no doubt they all mean it, and there will be many lovely, wonderful friends checking in on my babies. Even if my babies are all are teenagers, or almost. We have the support of Spencer's girlfriend who has been so generous with her time and is staying with the kids, and then her parents who came over last night to go over the kids daily schedules and are ready (and even excited) to attend the games and cheer on the kids in our place.

Merry Christmas! Here is our Christmas card. We truly have {JOY} in our home and in our lives!

Kylee's Christmas Concert!

We are so happy our school is not politically correct regarding Christmas. There is a huge tree in the foyer of the commons area, and the kids sang beautiful Christian Christmas songs at their concert. I remember singing some of those same songs when I was in my high school choir. It was fantastic!

The Kids decorating the tree...Dallin gets to put up the{Star} this year

Getting our tree :) YippY!

Kylee picked out our tree this year and the boys loaded it.

Check out his fantastic fanny!

Again with the camera mom?

This year has been so hectic we had to take turns decorating the tree. Jeff put the lights on a few days before we decorated it. I will load and post those pics tomorrow...hopefully :)

This kid is handsome!

Mamarazzi...Jensen and Kylee dress up for game day at school!

I have a hard time getting Jensen on board with my picture taking...He finally caved when Kylee jumped in with him. Thanks Kylee :)

paparazzi

Got our TRAVEL Approval and our dates!!!!!

I just got a call from our agency, and we are most likely leaving for China on December 30th and will arrive home with our daughter on January 12th. With a gotcha date of January 4th !!!!! That is just 27 days from now!!!!

I love this video :)

Dallin gets his {UniForM)

Dallin's youthful excitement was contagious when he came home with his uniform from practice the other night. He ran upstairs and before we knew it he was posed for a picture...the above picture is the official shot but the below picture shows his personality...gotta love this kid!

{My Blue Angels}

Kylee and her best friend Jazz...I took this picture as they were leaving for their first game, and then noticed they are wearing blue, and the sticker on my car above them says, "Blue Angels"

This is the only picture I will get of her... Why? She insists we not attend any games because we make her nervous. She has been made team captain and scored 8 points at today's game! I will have to cheer here... "GO KYLEE!"

Jensen sports Blue and Orange!

Warming up for his first game...



Making the shot...
Jensen is also doing very well...he started in their first game today, I didn't keep track of Jensen's points, but they won in todays' pre season against a 4A team...he is going to have fun!