I'm trying to catch up....promise. I just wish I wasn't so OCD about keeping our posts in the order that we lived them. I know I'm leaving out some stuff we did in December before Christmas, and well, we'll all just have to live with that. One thing I could mention quickly (b/c we have absolutely no pictures....thank you sweetheart) is Jeff Knapp's wedding. He is a very good friend of ours, and he married the sweetest girl before Christmas. Jeff and April are such a cute couple, and we couldn't be happier for them! Their wedding weekend was a blast! Joshua broke it down on the dance floor for hours at their wedding....he was quite a sight!
Now on to Christmas 2009!
Since we weren't going to be home on Christmas morning we decided we would do our little family Christmas Eve morning. We got Joshua a rocking airplane (think rocking horse that you ride on but it's an airplane), a cute little lego table and chair set (it has a smooth top that covers the lego top so he can use it as a regular table too), and a broom and dust pan just his size. He has been obsessed with our broom for the last few months. Any time the pantry door was open where we keep the broom he would run in there to get it and try to sweep the kitchen floor. The only problem was that he always smacked himself in the head b/c the broom is so much taller than him. Now he has his own broom that stays in the pantry with our broom. He has used it quite a bit since Christmas. It is so sweet to see him actually spot dirt on the floor and try to sweep it up for me. Did I just admit that we actually sometimes have dirt on our floor? Just pretend you didn't read that.
He was so excited when he came out into the living room and saw his gifts around the tree. He immediately ran over to the rocking airplane and got on for a ride. So far we've only had a few instances when he falls over the front of it b/c he's trying to turn the propeller. Santa got Derek and me a new GPS system! We were so surprised to find that wrapped under our tree. He knew just what we wanted! ;)
We left our house shortly after we opened our gifts to head to Albemarle to start our family Christmas celebrations. We were able to get to 6 family Christmas celebrations, and we did it all on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! I think we should win a prize or something. When went from Albemarle to Concord to Albemarle to Concord to Gastonia. It was so special getting to see so much of our family for Christmas, though, and we were glad we made the rounds! By the time we went to bed on Christmas Day we were completely exhausted. Joshua had been having some trouble sleeping the few weeks before Christmas for some reason, but that night he had no problem. He was one tired little boy. The fact that he ran laps up and down the hall at Derek's aunt's house chasing his older cousins may have had something to do with that.
We had a wonderful Christmas, but none of it would have been possible if it weren't for Jesus! Happy Belated Birthday Jesus! Thank you for being our wonderful, loving, gracious, forgiving Savior!
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