Christmas 2010

Christmas Eve and Christmas were so magical this year for our family. I don’t know if it was the lack of the screaming presence of cancer, don’t get me wrong its still here, its just a muffled presence now. Or if it was the addition of another sweet little boy to our family.

Never have I ever had so much food for my soul in two days. It will be a Christmas I will hold dear to my heart for a very long time.

I had forgotten to get carrots for the reindeer, but I remembered I had seen online that you can make reindeer feed with glitter and oatmeal….luckily I had both.

Every Christmas Eve we make an extreme bubble bath for the boys, this was Judah’s first year, we put him in a bumbo so he could join in.

I tried to get some cute pics of the boys in their xmas jammers, but this was the best I got before the two littlest boys fell apart.

I don’t think I can put into words what this picture means to me…..

Homemade bbq chicken pizza.

Sprinkling our food for the reindeer.

We gave this house to the boys on Christmas Eve, we wanted them to get a present from us. We decided we want to make it a tradition to get them a big Lego set every Christmas Eve and put it together as a family. It took 2 hours to put this together, but it was a fun time.

Christmas morning….

I can’t wait till next year!

How was your holiday??

Happy Holidays! / 4 months

December has been crazy for me! I have had a lot of photo shoots. And then on top of that our van, our heater, and now my iPhone have all broken down. When it rains it pours. I am not even going to talk about the “V” key that popped off my laptop today, I  may cry if I do.

With all that said, I do wish you all a happy holiday season. And I do hope to return to blogging after the new year.

Rowan had a school performance the other day. So the boys got dressed up fancy as they call it. I thought it was an ample time to snap a photo of all the boys together. I will be making this photo into a canvas in my home. I never thought my heart and home could be so full!

And here is baby Judah’s four month pictures. I don’t know what it is about this little guy, but oh my is he ever sweet. He only cries when hungry, and has started sleeping through the night (7-7). He is just so perfect in so many ways.

The love that you can feel for someone you have only known 4 months is sometimes more than I can comprehend. He is just the perfect fit to our family.

Happy Holidays!

December

I don’t have time to write words to accompany this post. So I bring you our December in pictures:

One Year.

What a difference a year makes… We all are in such a better place than we were last year at this time. Last year Ezra was amidst the toughest part of his chemotherapy treatment. He had lost all of his hair, and we couldn’t see beyond the diagnosis that was handed to us only a handful of months prior. 

And while cancer and leukemia are still a part of our daily routine, we don’t focus on it. We haven’t let it break down our family, and we haven’t let it define who we are.

Instead it has taught us to love, live, and laugh more, to prize our family above all else, and to grasp and capture every moment we can, because the fleet of life and youth is sometimes to fast to even fathom.

I am ever so grateful for this little boy.