Christmas Day

A wonderful Christmas day was had by all in our family! We hope you have had the same.

Enjoy the sounds of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas..." sung in the dark by the light of the Christmas tree by Jacob and Josh!

Christmas Greeting

Make a Smilebox greeting

Snow!!!

This weekend was very exciting for our family. Jon's sister Alison graduated from Northern Arizona University with her Master's degree. Go Ali! We all drove up to Flagstaff to attend the ceremony on Friday. Flagstaff was not only inundated with graduates and family members, but also 2 feet of snow from a blizzard that had blown through on Monday.

Thankfully, all of our family members made it safely up north in time for the graduation. Right after the ceremony, giant white flakes of snow started to fall from the sky. The boys were simply in heaven! It was their first experience with the stuff.

Later that night at the hotel, all the cousins decided to have a snowball fight. We made our way down to the hotel's tennis court. With all the snow, the tennis court had turned into a giant snow pit, complete with outdoor lighting! Totally awesome.

Here's a brief video of a bit of the snowball fight action:

The next day, we took full advantage of the winter wonderland right outside our doorsteps and had a family outing to partake in some sledding. Thanks to our friends, the Martins, we were fully equiped with sleds (an otherwise unknown commodity in Phoenix).

What a wonderful weekend with SNOW! Congrats to Ali on her graduation as well. We're certainly in the holiday mood now and ready for more celebrations with family and friends. The countdown to Christmas has begun!

Happy Ha-Ha-Holidays!

That was one of the songs that Jacob sang with his class at this evening's Christmas party: "Happy Ha-Ha-Holidays!" It was fun to see all the daycare friends and families together, enjoying these fun moments of the season. Both kids got to see Santa also, as an added bonus. Joshua was a bit nervous, but did ok on Santa's lap as long as his brother was there next to him.

We've got the tree, lights and other various festivities up at our house now. On the way home tonight, Jacob informed me that he's going to sing "Jingle Bells" everytime he sees Christmas lights on someone's house as we drive around. There was a lot of singing in our car, as you can imagine! The cutest thing is that Josh is now old enough to join in the singing of Christmas songs this year. The sounds of two adorable children's voices singing brings such joy! We thank the Lord for such sweet, wonderful, healthy boys and are looking forward to celebrating Jesus's birthday soon.
:)

Macy Photos

Our friends John and Erin took some amazing photos of our kids when we were visiting Oregon a few months ago. Let's just say, they rock!!! Here is a sampling (because we can't help but show these off when they make our kids look so adorable):