Christmas Joy!

The GIRLS I teach... all of them have delivered except for NaNa who is to my right. LOVE HER! Madi and Baby Trenton Laurie, Madi and Andrea

Aaron and I with Laurie and Tony. Tony LOVES when Aaron plays with him...he is ROUGH!

Baby Trenton...how cute is HE?

Rachel and Trenton (can you tell we LOVE Trenton!)

Madi and Crazy Tony...he LOVES her!

Jordan and Baby Genevieve...J loves the babies!

Livi and Tony Dancing Away

Wow, it has been a LONG time since I have blogged and I have so missed it! And so, I am catching up from Christmas and will start with the party on December 23, 2009 at a woman's shelter where our family volunteers. This party happened a few hours before the rug was pulled out from under our family...more to follow but I just want to keep the events in order.

This evening was by far the BEST part of my Christmas. I absolutely love the girls that reside at this shelter and learn more from them than they learn from me. I have taught them childbirth class on Tuesday nights for over a year and cherish each and every one of them. I have been asked to be in the delivery room with some of them and literally almost caught a baby a few months ago...past blog, check it out!

And so with the help from our church family we had a Christmas party. Each of the moms and children were "adopted" and many presents were bought. It was so much fun to play Santa and to see the faces of these beautiful children light up! We ate pizza (their choice!), decorated cupcakes and opened tons of presents. It was an absolute blast and a memory that my family will treasure FOREVER.