The whole family spent much of the week recuperating from a horrible head cold. Eric spent four days with fever, in bed, and off milk. Ken and I are still battling the effects of it all. Ella on the other hand, was glad to be back in school and choir.
The Cherub Choir had one of their Christmas performances today, singing Twinkle, Twinkle and Away in a Manger. Ella loves to sing and breaks out in song or will start humming a tune, whenever the mood strikes her. Here's our "star" singing:
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Well, as many of you know we have been talking about moving back to Colorado. We have had our house on the market for some time now and due to financial reasons have decided to make the move sooner, rather than later. Wanting to get the kids settled, we decided Xmas break would be a good time to get back out to Parker, CO for the holidays and to prepare our old house
(which was being rented, until recently) for us to move back in. We are all very excited about moving back, but know this will come as quite a change for our family. We are certainly going to miss the weather here, the only home our children have really known, and our beautiful and amazing Church, which has provided the foundation to help grow our faith in the Lord.
We are having the children baptized, before we leave to mark our committment to continue to grow and serve the Lord. We are very lucky that they were able to fit us into the busy holiday schedule to make it happen, before we have to leave.
A funny little story I have to share. I was talking to Ken today about how my memory just wasn't what it used to be and telling Ken the story of how I had forgotten our home phone number when I was in the hospital having Eric (I had to have the nurse look it up). Well, Ella was listening to our conversation and quickly chimed in, "Mommy our phone number is 7714270." I had never taught her our phone number, so I asked her where she learned it. She said, "Mommy, you wrote it on my chalk board." I had forgotten that a few days ago, Ella asked me what our phone number was and so I wrote it down for her on her chalkboard. I wasn't expecting her to memorize it. Well, to my surprise she did and now I know if I need to remember something just write it down on Ella's chalkboard.
Well, because we will not be spending Christmas here we decided to forgo cutting down a tree to an artificial tree we had from years ago. Ella was amazed at how real the tree looked and was excited that it was already all lit up. "Mommy, it's beautiful!" I'm glad she liked it, but definitely missed taking the kids to the tree farm. We broke out the Christmas decorations and Ella had a blast. I could hear Ella whispering to herself, opening box after box, saying "ooooo, I wonder what's in this one" or "Wow, look at this." I'm not sure how or why, but this year she is definitely more aware of the holiday season and is excited to see all the preparations.
Eric was enthralled with all the lights on the tree.
We took the kids to see a Living Christmas Story, put on by our Church and it was a wonderful experience for Ella. The whole church grounds was transformed into the town of Bethlehem, a true Living Christmas Story like no other. We were able to drive through the whole town beginning with the Register and ending with the tomb of Christ, seeing townspeople and King Herod, the stable and real animals (horses, sheep, goats, etc). We all really enjoyed it.
We had made plans to see Santa on Saturday, but the kids were beat and ready to go home after all the shopping at the Outlet mall. So, I decided to take our own pictures and we'll save our trip for Santa for next weekend.
We'll be back in Colorado for Christmas, so we're scrambling to get everything packed up and ready to go. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers, that we find a new Church home, the move and transition goes smoothly for everyone, and our house sells fast.
