It has taken us a few years, but we finally got a Christmas picture taken in our own home in front of our own fireplace. Ron had every lamp in the house lighting up our little picture and he still thought it was too dark.
Our family took a wonderful opportunity offered by our church to participate in Advent. Our pastor wrote a devotional book highlighting the four weeks before Christmas - Hope, Peace, Joy, Love with three purple candles and one pink candle - each standing for one week of Advent. Each night we, as a family, lit a candle on our Advent wreath corresponding with the week we were in, we had a devotional, sang a Christmas hymn and had prayer together and then on Christmas Eve we lit all four candles plus a white candle in the middle to represent the Christ Child. It was a special time each night giving us an opportunity to celebrate the coming of our Lord and Savior.
On the morning of Christmas Eve, we flew to California to spend the holiday with my parents and my brother and his wife and kids. One of the special things we were able to do was to visit the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library where the Air Force I used by Ronald Reagan was just retired and opened to the public in October. It was impressive to see this huge airplane inside the building. If you ever visit Southern California, don't miss seeing this important part of history. In the picture below we are standing in front of a piece of the Berlin Wall. We tried to expain the significance of this piece of wall to Brandon and Tyler - Brandon wasn't following - just notice his feet :)
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Josiah and I love the picture of the jet. We would love to see it!
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