Friday, December 23, 2011

Merry Christmas!

  From our home to yours!
 We've had the Vander Zwaag Christmas party...
 Our family party...
and tomorrow we head out for the Tuinstra Christmas party!  We've done lots of baking...
 Lots of packing...{more on this later}, took down the tree, literally!

I said, "Jayden, don't just yank the lights off the tree, your gonna make it..."
Fall!  Nice.
And...now we have lots of nice white stuff falling to the ground! YIPPEE!!  But come Monday morning at 4 AM, we are heading to MEXICO!!!!  Now, lest you think we are going on some wonderful exotic vacation...think again.  We {Ryan, Dylan, Jayden, Spencer, and I} are all heading to Chihuahua Mexico on a mission trip to Lily of the Valley Orphanage with about 30 other people from our church.  We are driving in 2-15 passenger vans and one car, non-stop 30 some odd hours!  So, um, no glorious warm vacationing, in fact, Chihuahua is the coldest state in Mexico!  We're talking 20's at night(just got word it is 18 there tonight!) But it looks like we may be blessed with a warm up coming next week of upper 60's during the day!  I really am looking forward to this trip, however...I REALLY don't want to leave Luisa{or Easton and Anaya for that matter} but I've never left Lucy, except for once a couple weeks ago when I went to Chicago for the weekend!  I know that I will have plenty of little ones to love on while I am there, and I am sure time will fly.  It was a life changing experience the last time I was there, and I am so excited to share that with the 3 older boys!  If you think of us, please pray for safe travels and no car sickness!!
Have a wonderful time celebrating the birth of our savior, Merry Christmas!

1 comments:

Jodie said...

The house is beautiful! We loved watching it all come together! Happy Birthday Lucy and so happy you all had a wonderful Christmas! Have a great trip!