Christmas 2009

Hey everyone!

We are missing you all in Calgary, and hope to see a lot of you at Christmas time, but it's unfortunatley going to be a really quick trip this year. We'll be out for a long weekend around New Years. So we won't get to fit in as many visits as we would like.

This Christmas is going to be spent in Saskatoon with Ryan's family. We are looking forward to it. Uncle Tyler is setting up a tent in the basement on Christmas eve for Jenna, Isaiah and Tahlis to sleep in. They are going to love it. Then we all get to wake up together on Christmas morning to open gifts and have a great time together. This is the first time we will all wake up in the same house together Christmas morning. This is a new tradition that Aimee thought up, and I think it's a great idea.

I am a little nervous for Christmas Eve this year. This is going to be my first year ever involved with a Christmas Eve service. At Jubilee, they usually hired in a band to play and we only sometimes attended. They do things differently at Lawson, and I think the change is kind of cool. I like the thought that the congregants are the ones preforming for the congregation. This summer our church hosting a large event in the local community, and have invited all the attendees of that event to the Christmas Eve service. Pastor John has asked me to sing for the service, and again on Sunday morning. I am praying that God will use me to reach others, this is going to be a bit of an outreach, and I really hope that seeds are planted. I'll be singing "O little town of Bethlehem". I thought it would be an easy one, seeing as it's a carol I have sung before, however, I didn't realize that I didn't know the words as well as I thought I did. So now I have been practising a lot trying to memorize the words, and I am a little nervous. I have 3 days to go, and I just don't want to mess this up!

I can't wait for Christmas morning. This is the first year that Jenna is truely getting excited. She is constantly asking Daddy to check his phone to see how many sleeps we have left. She loves looking at the calender to count down. Which is why I am kicking myself for forgetting to buy an Advent Calender. Oh well, there's always next year.

That's all for today, I have a lot to do before Ryan gets home. :)

Merry Christmas, Happy New year, and God Bless!

~Amanda

Who likes Jenna's new hair cut? She started it herself.... Guess who was thrilled about that? It took quite a while for me to fix it, but I think in the end it turned out really cute!

Malachi loves showing off his muscles, and no one is better at encouraging him to do ss, than his big sister!