Thankful Thursday

Father God,

Thank YOU for blessing me with my husband, Ben. He's been such a great companion to me for these last 8.5 years. I am amazed at how much our love has grown because of You in our lives. He's such a wonderful husband, friend, father, helper,teacher, and worker. Thank YOU for allowing our little family to be so blessed in this life. I praise YOU always.

Love,

Melony

Happy Birthday Baby! I love you with all of my heart.

Christmas Day we went to Yaya's house (MIL). We took pics of the cousins all together again.Later, after we ate lunch and the kids played for awhile, they came downstairs to decorate a cookie cake for Jesus. They were having fun eating the mini m&m's and marshmellows.

Happy Birthday Jesus!

My battery died after that, so I don't have many more pics of the day. :( I then forgot to put the battery back in the camera when I did charge it. What a bummer! I finally got it together on New Year's Eve so here are a few pics of Grandma Carrizales' 84th birthday! :) She loved being with her family. :)

Great Grandma with most of her great- grandchildren! :)

Christmas Eve

We celebrated Christmas with my parents and some of the family on Christmas Eve. First, we went to the 2 pm service at our church. Vanessa and the kids were able to join us that night for a wonderful message about Our Savior who came so humbly into this world. After service, I snapped a pic of R and Allison playing on the slide right outside of R's bible class.

After we took R home for a nap, we headed to my mom's and dad's house for some good food. Dad made a small turkey and ham that were delicious and all the fixings to go with that. We had tamales, also, and rice and beans. Some of us had the "American" meal first and then the "Mexican" meal after! ;) It was all so good.

After we ate, we took some pics. Here they are:

Uncle Ashley and Tia Lilia (Dad's sis)

Papa and Lala and Rachel

Fatima, Ashley (family friends) and R R and her new best friend Ashley

Rodolfo, Ashely, Mayle, and Fatima (New family friends of ours, their mom, Miros, was in Mexico keeping her son company during the holiday)

Grandma, Me, and R
Tia Paz and Me
Mom and I After we took pics, I read the Candy Cane Story
The little ones placed Baby Jesus on the Nativity scene with the angel who was rejoicing.

We then all rejoiced by singing Christmas carols. R was so excited about singing songs, she wanted a solo. Here she is "reading" the lyrics that she was singing.
Time to open presents.
We had a great time with our family. :) We're thankful to God for all of our blessings. :)