What an amazing 3 weeks!

Wow.  It has been such a great month of celebrating Jesus' birthday, Scotty's birthday and the New Year...enjoying visits from grandparents and a good friend...relishing lots of family time as Scotty took the whole week of Christmas off of work...and just talking about all that God has done in our lives in 2011- to Him alone be the glory!

I could probably put up at least 100 photos, countless stories and a dozen blog posts to try and cover it all, but these quick tid-bits and pics will have to sum it all up for now. :-)

For Christmas we THOROUGHLY enjoyed a visit from g'p and g'ma Ruth in PA and had a great time celebrating the whole Christmas weekend.  I'd say we all agree that Jesus has been so kind to us in placing us all in the same family.  Scotty and I were able to share the news that baby #3 will be joining us next year.  Loved the surprised face, expressions and exclamations. :-) God is good! 

 

For Scotty's birthday we enjoyed a family day of bowling and being together (Joy was too stylish in her skinny jean outfit from g'pa and g'ma Sovilla)…

 

For New Year's we enjoyed another holiday hosted by my generous in-laws.  Micah finally got to make the long-anticipated gingerbread train with DeeDee.

Micah has been patiently waiting for a real good snow, and God gave it to us on January 2nd.  He was overjoyed.  During Joy's nap time he and I had a great time outside with his new sleds and snow block makers from Brad and DeeDee.

We've been able to have plenty of downtime during Scotty's week off - and we got some projects and cleaning up done around the house to boot!