a Family December

we gathered
we ate
we played games
we prayed
we laughed
we held babies

we built fires
we went shopping
we shopped some more

we held babies
we burped babies
we fed babies
we changed baby diapers
we bathed babies

we watched movies
we listened to Christmas carols
we hung out
we visited
we talked politics

we held babies
we fed babies
we burped babies
we talked baby talk

we posed in the snow
sweetie wrote our family Christmas letter
sweetie mailed them

we decorated this Christmas tree

we decorated our home
we put lights in each window
we had carolers bringing bread, honey and joy

Oh, Come Let Us Adore Him

we gathered for lunch
we ate pho
we laughed some more
we shared ideas about gratitude and meekness

we had our 40th year wedding anniversary
we ate amazing food
we went to a Christmas concert
we walked fast because it was cold outside

we made traditional food
we made bratzlies and toffee
we ate and ate and ate

we took pictures of babies
we squeezed Rosie and Clementine
we held the magic of Christmas

we took lots of pictures of babies
we went skiing

we had a birthday party for Joseph and Valerie and young Ed

we blessed Clementine
we prepared soup and salad and rolls

we played with Tweetie
we went to a movie (Saratov Approach)
we coughed and sneezed
we ate our favorite foods
we went sledding

we enjoyed our home and all of the people who graced these walls

we had surprises
we gathered
we hugged and kissed
we filled every bed with bodies
we sprawled out and slept on the floors

we prepared food

we prepared food

we went to Costco

and then we prepared food

we participated in a sub for santa

we wrapped gifts

we lit candles

we shoveled snow
we played games over and over and over and still forgot to play Skittles

we put together two jigsaw puzzles
we visited my dad in Farmington

we went to so many parties
we threw so many parties
we took naps
we read the Christmas story
we went to church
we heard George Nielsen report from his mission

we celebrated this little family
we watched Ed and Val's little girls open Christmas gifts
we celebrated our family
we are so thankful for a forever family
we know that Jesus made this possible

we didn't take enough pictures
we are missing key players in our Christmas celebrating
we are missing photos of  Kel, Hankie, Doug and most of the Brasher kids, Ed and Val's girls, the twins, Laurel before her dramatic exit, ... and that's a darned shame.

we are thankful for 2013
we live blessed lives

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