Christmas morning

I wasn't too remiss in my picture taking this morning!  Thought I would post the ones I took for everyone to see how the girls' Christmas morning went :)

Gigi's visit

Gigi came from CA for Christmas for a few days!  The kids were in heaven :)  Hopefully, maybe, she will be able to work out her schedule to where she will be able to come home more often than twice a year!  Here are a few pics.....  I really need to get better about taking MORE pics!  And I never could get the 3 kids to cooperate for a pic but I did get a few of them separately with her that turned out cute!

Gigi and the "Roar"

Jace cheesing it up for the camera for me!  a rare event these days... she likes to cover her face when I take her picture now!

Gigi and the boy - Kai!

Gigi & Jace

Mickey Mouse

Here are my beautiful girls' wearing their micky / minnie dresses that Jerica made for them to wear to Playhouse Disney Live!!!  I, of course, forgot to take pics while we were there :)  But it was fantastic!  Trey and I were able to take Jace by herself (Bic babysat the Roar- thank you Bic), and it was neat to be able to spend some quality one on one time with her.  And she was FASCINATED!  She literally sat there in awe for the whole hour and half!  We were sitting next to Jerica and family... I thought that would be fun for Jace to have her friend, Isabella, there because she loves her so, but Jace was entirely single minded over the program!  LOL  I think if we were to go someplace like this again when she is older she will LOVE having a friend with her!  But, it was great to do something like this with her!  And she had so much fun she fell asleep within 5 minutes in the car afterwards, which is an accomplishment because she DOES NOT sleep in the car anymore and hasn't for over a year now!

1 Peter 1:13

"Prepare your minds for action.  Control your emotions and fix your hopes completely on the grace that you will be granted at the revelation of Jesus Christ."

I read many things that cause me to reflect.  Sometimes I sit here and say to myself, "If I could only be so eloquent in my words..."  But the truth is, I LIKE reading other people's thoughts.  I enjoy surrendering myself in the beauty of words, thoughts, and ideas.  And if, at this stage in my life, I can only achieve that in the words of other people and not my own, then I am okay with that.  For now, I will just revel in the beauty that I read, or hear, or see.  And hopefully share, here.

"Unforgiveness causes all sorts of problems and is considered the biggest block to healing.  We hurt ourselves by keeping the wound open."

Friends

Jace

have I mentioned yet that Jace is obsessed with Care Bears?  I happened upon this shirt on ebay for $5...  She LOVES it.  And Jace is still pretty indifferent to what she wears, unlike some of her friends who are becoming more and more particular about what they wear.  So now that she's seen this shirt it's become her favorite and she wants to wear it daily :)  She's getting Care Bear underwear and socks for Christmas...  as dorky as this sounds, seeing her this excited over Care Bears makes me happy in a way that is unexplainable.