Happy December Y'all

December came in with a bang at our house. Thursday the kids all rode on floats in the Jacksonville Christmas parade.  The girls rode on the float with my sisters children for the dentist office and Samuel rode on the Yoshukai float.  When his float came by, I actually heard him yell "Santa Claus is for Alabama."  Oh my goodness...that boy!

ok ....this was in November, but I had to add this picture of the girls and I with Christy at her baby shower. In a little over a month we get to hold her baby girl.

                                                   

Friday we had a Christmas party with Campus Outreach at JSU.  We played dirty Santa and had dessert.   It's always fun to hang out with the students.



poor Courtney...Dave is stealing her coffee mug!

                                     

Christy and I schemed and sadly ended up with these yucky shoes :)

Abby ended up with a Justin Bieber poster.  Can you tell how happy she was :)

 

Samuel got an Alabama cookie jar after a trade off with Richard.  thanks for making my boy so happy Richard.

Erin was at a spend the night party with her cousin Emma!


Saturday was a big work day at the lake.  We raked lots and lots of leaves.  ok....so we played a little too :)

                                    

  Today we had lunch with the Campus Outreach students.  The lunch was supposed to be at our house....BUT...when i woke up we had no power.  Our power never goes out. NEVER!!  so i thought it would be back on any minute so I proceeded to make my corn chowder and Chili in the crock pots.  An hour passed...still no power.  So I ended up taking all of my crock pots to Jason and Christy's at around 9am and just hoping the food would be hot when all the students go there to eat. It turned out to be a great day. It was a good time of fellowship with the students.  They take finals this week and then go home for Christmas break.  I know God was trying to teach me something this morning.  Probably several things.  I hope I learned the lessons. 

Tonight Dave is speaking at my parents church.  He will be giving his testimony of the past year. It has been a very difficult week for him as he thinks about next weeks scans and has had to prepare for this talk tonight about the past year.  If you read this before 6pm, please pray for him.  If you read this after that please pray for us as we travel to Houston for scans Tuesday.  I'll post Wednesday as soon as we get scan results.