Shine!

  Merry Christmas to you and your family!!❤️💚 I hope each of you had a beautiful day focusing on the birth of our Savior.✨ We had a quieter day than usual but still a really good celebration time.😊 We had a lunch of lagsana and then pretty much chilled with games and movies the rest of the day. One of us was missing, as you can see from the picture, as John was visiting his friend in Alabama. We are waiting to have our bigger celebration after New Years when Will and Brittany and the kids are here, so I will be giving a bigger recap then.😁  "And the angel answered and said to her, " The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God." - Luke 1:35 "For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." - Luke 2:11 ~Grace

 On December 9, a few of us were thrilled to attend a concert of a Christmas tour put on by the Southern Gospel groups Greater Vision and the Mylon Hayes Family. They are a couple of the best groups out there and together they put together a program that was incredible, fun, and very worshipful!  The building was a distance from the parking lot so we got a train ride to the front door.😁 The Mylon Hayes Family. Greater Vision Trio. They performed Joy to the World and Jingle Bells with hand bells and that was so fun!😍 If they are in your area next year, you must go hear them!❤️💚 ~Grace

We had a full house Thanksgiving week! Will and Brittany came Sunday the 23rd and stayed through the following Monday. We treasured every minute we had and made many great memories! We explored the pasture/pond behind us Sunday afternoon. The little kiddos aren't so little anymore!🥲 We played Telestrations that evening...there were several times I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.😂😂😂 We look serious in the pictures but I wasn't able to capture the hilarious times.😁 ~~~ Monday morning we headed to Texarkana and spent some time at the park and shopping at TJMaxx. Lizzy kept me busy reading books all week.🥰 She found some children's books we had about historical people like Sacagawea, Pricilla Mullins, Dolly Madison, etc. She absolutely loved learning about Sacagawea and we read that one twice.☺️  Picnic lunch! ~~~ The Saturday before Thanksgiving, we had our first Thanksgiving meal at Dad's extended family get-together. (Sorry, we're not all in the pi...