Believe!

 

My friend Melissa made this teeny tiny painting on a teeny tiny easel for me.
Can you still hear the bells? 

We had wonderful Christmas celebrations with both sides. It was a whirlwind of a week, working through Friday, then going to Pearsall on Saturday for our celebration. We did our best! We did have a good visit there and went to Lolly's beautiful church on Sunday morning. Hannah shot her first deer this past week. We learned that Rene is pregnant again!
Growing families!

As for the Golden side, Jen wraps up Christmas Eve very well here: http://tierd.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/christmas-eve/
I got all emotional at the candlelight service because I could not stop thinking about the families of the children shot last week in Connecticut. How those parents were in our shoes, excited and so lucky and had those babies for 6 years and now they are gone. All their Christmas presents wrapped, under the tree. The last time we were at Trinity Baptist, we were with Dad, that was strange too. We went there because John and Katie weren't in town for our church service and we wanted to do the old go downtown routine!

We went downtown after the candlelight service. Had to touch the Alamo for good luck!

Everyone who participated in creating the Gingerbread House-
we had a professional on our team!

 

PJs

Stockings

Presents

Mom gave Jen and me a most special Christmas gift of her engagement ring and wedding band. She had the main stone removed and made into a new ring for herself and gave us the matching bands. I cried. She gave John Dad's Aggie ring. 



After Dinner





All the dogs got to play together on Christmas Day!

Merry Christmas to all!