Part of what I love about the girls' names is that they were both popular 100 years ago and many people with those names are now great-grandmas. Both names evoke a vision for me of sweet old ladies rocking away together on a porch. I pray Ella and Sadie will live meaningful lives full of love and will be enjoying each other on a front porch somewhere many years from now.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Christmas TreeS :-)

We had a great holiday season this year hence, I've had no time to blog about it!  And it'll probably take 10 posts to get up to date. Ella went back to school today after about 10 days off so I'm trying to get back into the swing of "normal" life.

So, our Christmas started with all the fun pre-Christmas prep, largely involving our tree(s) this year!  We bought a tree but it was too small for our stand (and our liking) and kept felling over (and a bunch of ornaments broke) so we ended up getting another tree!  AND, the best part was we were able to give our first one away to a family who couldn't afford to buy a tree this year.  She was a friend of a friend and mentioned that her kids would be really excited because she'd told them they probably couldn't have one this year.  THEN a few days later we got a thank you letter in the mail with a picture of their SEVEN kids in front of the tree! So unexpected and exciting to be able to bless them!

 Tree #1

 Sadie really loved decorating (and only broke 1 ornament)



 
Tree #2!










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