Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!  What a wonderful day it is!  Looking around the world with so much focus on Santa Clause, and the gifts and lights and trees makes me want to stop in the middle of the mall and say, 'People, don't you know what this is really all about?!'  Everywhere you go, people are saying 'Season's Greetings'.  Well when I hear that, I have to answer back, 'And a Merry Christmas to you!'  Without the birth of our Savior there wouldn't be a Christmas at all and people so often forget that.

We had church this morning and what a sweet service!  I had people asking me this week, 'You're actually having church on Christmas?!' Well of course!  It's Jesus' birthday!  What better time to go to church and tell Him thank you for coming and being the ultimate sacrifice for me?  Sometimes I feel so small to think that the God of Glory came in flesh just so that I could have eternal life.

This morning in church Sister Kelly Boggs sang a song that I had forgotten about but I remembered loving it a few years ago.  I'm going to include some of the words here because it says so much more than I could ever say.


The wonder of wonders as she looked down and smiled.
He was her maker as well as her child.
He created the womb that had given Him birth.
He was God incarnate come down to the earth.


The wonder of wonders, Oh how could it be,
That God became flesh and was given for me?
The Almighty came down and walked among men.
The wonder of wonders, He died for my sins.


And what a wonder it is that before I was ever born, He knew my name, and He knew that I was going to sin so He came and gave His life that I could be forgiven.

Let's not forget the real reason for why we celebrate this day!  God bless you all.

Happy Birthday, Leah!

Yesterday my baby girl turned 21.  It seems like only a day or so ago that she was being brought home from the hospital.  Weighing in at 7 pounds 6 ounces, she was the smallest one of our girls.  A head full of honey blonde hair and the sweetest little personality from day one.

We had been through a miscarriage almost a year before she was born, and for those who have been there, you know that it is one of the most trying times emotionally that you ever go through.  Alot of times we have wondered if that baby was the boy we never had.  But every time we think of that dark time we have to remember that if we had kept that baby we probably never would have had Leah, and what a wonderful blessing she has been!  She was just like sunshine for Mommy and Daddy after suffering our loss.  Didn't take much to make her smile.  Just look in her direction and her face would light up.

Now she's all grown up and a mom to a beautiful little girl that has a personality much like her mom's.  We had them all here for Thanksgiving and got to love on little Ella a little bit.  Don't get to do that near as often as we would like.  :(

Just want to say to Leah, we are so proud of the young lady you have become.  You are a wonderful wife and mother and we love you so very much.  We were truly blessed by God the day that he sent "Mom's Little Bomb" to us on Pearl Harbor Day.

Love you Leah!  Happy Birthday!