Daddys birthday party! egg drop soup, egg rolls, lettuce wraps, pad thai, and the hobbit with some guy friends! Happy 26th sweet tea! I love you!

Dont break the ice family game time during breakfast!

Christmas napping while mommy catches up with old friends.

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Ive been wanting a back picture of my girls sitting on a beach looking out towards the water. My sister-in-law shalom made me this one on the right for a christmas present! cant wait to hang it!

4 varrieties of chocollate truffles, 2 loaves of rosemary bread, and a tray of Cranberry bliss bars! Daniel, girls and I had a fun day of baking, shopping, and just enjoying each other as a family! Now girls are in bed and time for some sparlking juice in our new made in USA Target $1 bin stemless glasses. Arn't they cute? We couldnt belive something so cheep was made in america! so excited! Oh and I guess our night turned into early Christmas eve morning! Haha!

Came to pick up daniel and surprized with a free little tea with my girls!

Hot choc fire and sewing the rest of our night

Making birdnest necklaces for presents. The colored pearls represent the months the kidswere born in. I dont think the ladies who im giving these to follow my blog so we're safe. ;)

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Gingerbread house

Girls were laughing so hard in their room last night. Daniel went to check on them first and then called me in to find this except on tashi. Honestly I freaked out! it was clown style creepy! Which the girls thought was funny they tricked me. Goofy children.

Encouragment

Isaiah 35:1-10

The Ransomed Return to Zion 

35 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad;
the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.^[a][b]
2 It will blossom abundantly
and will also rejoice with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon.
They will see the glory of the Lord,
the splendor of our God.
³ Strengthen the weak hands,
steady the shaking knees!
⁴ Say to the cowardly:
“Be strong; do not fear!
Here is your God; vengeance is coming.
God’s retribution is coming; He will save you.”
⁵ Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
⁶ Then the lame will leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy,
for water will gush in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;
⁷ the parched ground will become a pool of water,
and the thirsty land springs of water.
In the haunt of jackals, in their lairs,
there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.
⁸ A road will be there and a way;
it will be called the Holy Way.
The unclean will not travel on it,
but it will be for the one who walks the path.
Even the fool will not go astray.
⁹ There will be no lion there,
and no vicious beast will go up on it;
they will not be found there.
But the redeemed will walk on it,
¹⁰ and the redeemed of the Lord will return
and come to Zion with singing,
crowned with unending joy.
Joy and gladness will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee.

Time to seek the Lord

Devotional from Biblegateway.com this morning. This one was written by A.W. Tozer

Trials and Pain: The Sharp Blade of the Plow

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, till He comes and rains righteousness on you.—Hosea 10:12

The fallow field is smug, contented, protected from the shock of the plow and the agitation of the harrow.... But it is paying a terrible price for its tranquility: Never does it see the miracle of growth; never does it feel the motions of mounting life nor see the wonders of bursting seed nor the beauty of ripening grain. Fruit it can never know because it is afraid of the plow and the harrow.

In direct opposite to this, the cultivated field has yielded itself to the adventure of living. The protecting fence has opened to admit the plow, and the plow has come as plows always come, practical, cruel, business-like and in a hurry. Peace has been shattered by the shouting farmer and the rattle of machinery. The field has felt the travail of change; it has been upset, turned over, bruised and broken, but its rewards come hard upon its labors. The seed shoots up into the daylight its miracle of life, curious, exploring the new world above it. All over the field the hand of God is at work in the age-old and ever renewed service of creation. New things are born, to grow, mature, and consummate the grand prophecy latent in the seed when it entered the ground. Nature's wonders follow the plow. Paths to Power, 31-32.

"Lord, make me a cultivated field. I suspect the price will be high, but I long to bear fruit for Your glory. Do the hard work of the farmer in my life today. Amen."

Daniel has been making us homeade sour cream since he learned how to at his tea job. I was kinda afraid to try it but once i saw it looked same and smelled same i tasted it and it was perfect!

Claira and me watching daniel and girls put lights up out the window. Feels like it might snow!

Claira saying "Hi"

Tashi with a pomagranat (sp?) totally her thing. she loves picking at little things like I do. Elle likes them too but prefers I pick them out for her first.

Reorganized the girls stuffies ontop of the little trampoline. space saver and less chance of spiders living in there I hope. C got right to enjoying them!

I think the girls like pears. Once Elle ate stem and all!

Driving up the hill. The whole scene snaps like a photagraph in my mind. A sudden shot of adrenaline charges my whole body. My cold breath slices as it fills my lungs holding my body hostage to let it out again. "I'm almost to work! I need to be ready. Full of energy." my heart races with the anticipation of what social encounters I may have to make, some happy. Some scary, embarassing, or even rude. My eyes feel pointy as they squeeze to focus on the image as my brain decifers what is real, what time is, and where am I in all of it. -its amazing to me how one little smell, taste, touch, or view can bring back so many memories and emotions in such a real now time way!

Claira helping me with dishes saying 'gigle gigle lickle lickle'

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So ive been reading through Luke with the girls for devotions in the morning and trying to explain it as best I can. So today we talked about how Elizabeth was having a baby as a married lady from her husband Zechariah with out going into details of how that works, and Mary's baby was a miracle put in her tummy from God. Well she must have listened because she came up to me and said she had a baby in her tummy and it was from gious (Zechariah). Tashi was pretending to be Elizabeth and Elle pretending to be Mary. Haha so cute. I guess I should clairify to her that all Babies are also gifts from God. I think i have a new favorite Boy name to add to our list if we ever have boys.

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making snowflakes with daddy mommy and even claira by the christnas tree and warm fire! (claira enjoyed crumpling paper) countdown calender day 1