Ending the Year with a Bang!

A New Family Addition

IT'S A BOY!

Jodi and Jerry are now the proud parents of Jaedyn Michael.
(I'm not sure the spelling is correct, but I think I am close.)

He arrived on December 28 at 7:55 p.m.

Welcome to the family little boy!
And yes, that is a head full of hair.
He weighs in at 6 lbs. and 5 ounces.

This is Aunt Teresa's first time holding him.

Noah is checking out his Momma holding this little guy.

He sure is a sweetie!
Congrats Jerry and Jodi!

Pappy gets to hold GREAT grand baby #13!

Christmas with Grammy and Pappy

The Lewis Family Christmas

Ginger and Luke gave Noah this Cars racer and he refused to open any other gifts after he got this. Do you know of a kid who does not want to open more presents? He sit quietly in the corner and kept racing. He still loves it. Thanks Gin and Luke!

This is Grandma and Grandpa Lewis or Grammy and Pappy if you are a great grand kid.
We were lucky to have Grandpa with us this year. He was just out of the hospital and quite tired but he spent some time with all us hoodlums any way. Aren't they sweet?
Merry Christmas you two!

A Crispy Christmas

Christmas with Mom and Dad Crisp

This year we had the Crisp Christmas on Christmas afternoon.
We were thrilled to spend a little time with Uncle Phil along with John and Shirley.
Thank you for the yummy lunch!

Madison sits patiently but can you tell she's excited?
Can you say "Cheese"?

Noah enjoys a very Thomas Christmas.
He has listens to this CD story when he goes to bed at night.

Avery Christmas 2007

Christmas with Mom and Dad Avery



Christmas at the Avery's is on Christmas Eve every year. Our tradition is a dinner with steamed crab legs, cheddar biscuits, and this year Dad through in a little shrimp scampi too. Thanks to Mom and Dad for hosting us every year.

Makayla gets the party started in her Santa hat.

These two take a moment to give us a quick pose with Santa Mickey.
Grandma decorated her tree with cartoon characters this year and the kids were thrilled to touch all the fun decorations.

Mickey has been good this year and Noah felt like he needed a hug.

Our family

My brother's family

A fun gift of character towels was a picture moment in the making.
Too funny to pass not posting.

Think she likes her Leapster? The face gives it away! We have barely seen her without it since she opened it. And Noah gets his own set of tools. Paul was tired of sharing his tools with Noah. (We found them scattered all through the house.) So, when Mom and Dad asked if this would be a good choice Paul jumped at the chance.

Uncle Scott and Aunt Jen got Madison and Noah a race track. That's the first toy to be played with every morning. Uncle Scott "shows" Noah how to race. Who's having more fun?

And no Christmas is complete without the classic kid in the box picture?
Thank you Makayla for making our post complete!

Christmas at the Crisp House

What's Christmas like at our house?

Well, it's filled with pajamas and bed head, but as Madison shows you below the excitement of opening gifts is quite entertaining.


What's Christmas without a little juice? Noah and Madison live for breakfast but on Christmas morning even breakfast waits until all the gifts are opened and played with a little. Noah needed a little hydration though to keep going. : )

Noah's big gift this year was Thomas the train tracks. Madison and Noah play with his set every day and even Daddy gets in on the fun Christmas morning! By the way, Madison received a digital camera and she shot over 200 pictures at just Grandma and Grandpa Avery's house.

We trust you had a lovely Christmas too as we celebrated the birth of our Savior.
Happy Birthday Jesus!

Give me a C H E E R!

Let's hear it for my CHEERLEADER!

Madison has started a new sport this winter. It's UpWard cheer leading and these are shots from her first practice. Can you imagine 6 Kindergartners getting their cheer on for the first time? Quite entertaining!!!




Madison is a natural! Below you will see her with her coach, Miss Stephanie. Her team name is the Angels quite fitting I would say. She is stoked about having a megaphone and pom-poms. I'll be posting pictures of her first game in the new year. For now we can send cheers of encouragement to Madison for trying something new and liking it!

Christmas with Kindergarten Style

There are 90 Kindergarten students enrolled at Kendell this year and here they are in all their glory! Just wanted to share with you a few pictures from Madison's Christmas program! Too cute!

Madison loves to sing and dance and you can tell from this picture. And below...they were wearing jingle bells around their necks. One of Madison's best friends is in the Santa hat in the front row.

There is nothing like the kids at Christmas!
What joy! I hope your holiday is filled with much joy too!

Redefining Thanksgiving!

There is reason to CELEBRATE in Kazakhstan!!!

Thank you to all of you who jumped on board to support children in Kazakhstan. Because of your ministry support the Ideas in Motion department was able to raise enough money to provide warm clothes and coats to 18 children at the AppleTree house this winter. What a blessing to be part of this project and what a blessing to children in need.

If you did not get a chance to be part of this project you can start your own and it's easy). If you are interested in learning how just click on www.co-missioncatalog.org to see what projects still need your help.