My Faith and Joy… and Boys!

We’re loving having my California family here this week!  Our early Christmas was a huge hit with the kids.  Here are the highlights!

The beginning:

The middle:

The end:

We’re keeping the grandparents and Aunt Angie very busy! 

Think Susie is using her dough disguise to pretend to be Santa or Grandpa?!

Danny, walking outside in the backyard, “I smell donuts.”

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Jimmy: “Why is our meeting [our church building] so old?”

Susie, in an exasperated know-it-all voice, “We’ve been using it since you were born!”

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Jimmy: “What does full speed ahead mean?”

Me: “It means going as fast as you can.”

Jimmy: “I can go faster.”

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Me to Susie, “If this is the way you’re going to act, it’s going to be a long day.”

Becky happily declared, “I LOVE long days!”

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Jimmy: “Fries is a fruit.”

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Jimmy exclaimed when I first came in his room in the morning, “I know how to spell ATV!!!  First “A”, then “T”, then “V”!!”

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Jimmy: “Rattle snakes are the dangerous, dangerous snakes in the whole wide world.  If I ever see a rattlesnake, I’m going to run inside and get my camouflage suit on.  Probably snakes are afraid of army men.”

Sometimes he looks so grown-up…and sometimes he looks like a baby.  I love those baby cheeks!