Friday, December 19 ~ I turned 56. Huudson made me a card.
Sunday, December 21 ~ At lunch after church Poppy opened her quilt from Great Grandma Wini. I wish this was a video because she kept gasping and saying "oh". It was so cute. The quilt is just adorable!
That evening the family celebrated my birthday with a delicious dinner at Bobbi and Travis' house and a limo ride around Lincoln to look at Christmas lights. It was such a fun time with the whole family plus our friends, Jill and Jake, crammed in that limo laughing and talking.
Monday, December 22 ~ Once again our lives took another turn. Early December Ashley was called by Christian Heritage about taking a foster child. Over the course of a couple weeks she prayed about and considered this. She met "Lucy" (I am going to keep her name private on here, if you know us you know her name but for the sake of the blog she is "Lucy" and I can't show her face on here but know that is strictly for privacy matters) and made the decision to take her into her home. "Lucy" moved in on Monday, December 22 and is 11 and in 6th grade. It was fun to make sure that she would have a great Christmas with our family. I can't even imagine what it would have been like at 11 to have Christmas with a lot of adult strangers!
Tuesday, December 23 ~ I don't usually work on a Tuesday but the schedule changed due to Christmas. I had a Christmas party with the kids and Ashley and "Lucy" came over to decorate cookies and play.
Wednesday, December 24 ~ I got some food prepared for Christmas and Christmas Eve. I went in to go to the Service. I love going to the Christmas Eve service. Bobbi, Travis, Jayme, Trey, Poppy, Ashley and "Lucy" were all there with us. Then we all came out here except for Poppy, she went to her mom's. "Lucy" made cards for everyone while we waited for them to get there.
We had some food and enjoyed hanging out together. Bobbi and Travis went home and the others spent the night.
Thrusday, December 25 ~ It certainly changed our Christmas morning when "Lucy" was up at 6:45 and could barely wait until 7 to go wake everyone up. She ran down the hall yelling "GET UP IT'S CHRISTMAS!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!"
We had a great day even though it was different from what we have known for a long time. Bobbi and Travis spent the morning at his family then we were all together for a bit and then ate lunch together. After lunch Jayme and Trey headed in to pick up Poppy from her mom and go to his family's Christmas. The rest of us hung out here and then early evening Bobbi and Travis went home. The 4 of us at our house just relaxed. "Lucy" played with her new stuff and we played some games and watched a movie. She and Ashley spent the night at our place again.
Sunday, December 28 ~ Bobbi and some of Ashley's friends threw her a big 30th birthday party. It was such a nice party and fun to celebrate the amazing person that Ashley is.
Monday, December 29 ~ Our oldest child turned 30!
Wednesday, December 31 ~ New Years Eve and it was pretty quiet at our house. We made some chocolate chip cookies and had some hot tea and coffee while watching football I am sure. That brings us to the end of this extremely event filled year!! If you go back to the beginning Bryan was healing from open heart surgery. Then May Bobbi and Travis got engaged. The end of July Bryan's mom fell and went into the hospital then passed away August 10. Her funeral was the 13th. Bobbi and Travis got married August 17. Jayme and Trey got engaged in September and married October 19. Ashley took on the foster care of "Lucy" in December. So in a matter of 5 months we went from a family of 5 to a family of 9. And we are loving it!
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