Happy New Year!

We hope each one of you had a wonderful Christmas! We enjoyed it with some good friends of ours. (Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of that.)

Around here, it seems like it is either feast or fammine as far as activities go. The week leading up to Christmas was quite busy with lots of community activities. There was a local choir Christmas Concert, the schools Christmas program, caroling to name a few. Our church joined the Community Church and put on a children's program. I was in charge of directing it and had a lot of fun. The kids were really cute to watch and did a great job. Malachi even participated for about 30 seconds as Boy Jesus at the end.

We had a Christmas Eve service that had our small church packed with people. It was such a blessing to see so many walk through the doors. And Malachi even sat with some friends of ours for most of the service which made it extra enjoyable for Jeremy and I. :)

With our faster internet these days, come the chance to skype and facetime (basically telephone with video over the computer for those of you who don't know what they are) with both sets of family. It's fun to have them seem like they are almost in the same room! Malachi and his cousin Carter who are days apart in age were able to see each other as well.

Christmas Day morning we spent together as a family and enjoyed watching Malachi's excitement as he opened each of his presents. (He was spoiled rotten this year! HAHA)

Well, since pictures are worth a thousand words.............

Malachi enjoyed the Christmas Tree and tells me almost every morning "on".  And calls it "pretty". Thankfully, he knows not to mess with the ornaments. (most of the time)

 He did a good job unwrapping the presents with minimal help. We did a couple on Christmas Eve, but most Christmas morning. I think it took about 2 1/2 hours to get everything opened. :)

 A small group, but they did a wonderful job! Our shepherds did double duty as wisemen too.

 This boy loves to read! And has tons of books.

 All smiles next to his farily recently painted room.

 In October, we spend a little over two weeks visiting my parents in Florida! We had a great time; spending most of it at Walt Disney World.

He loveddddd meeting the characters, especially Mickey and Donald.