Let the Family Festivities Begin...

On Tuesday, Steve finished his last final. Five semesters down, ONE to go! The end of finals came just as a flurry of Christmas activities was ramping at The GreenHouse - making for a nutty (intense, grueling) couple of weeks in our household. But once again, we made it out alive. Marriage still intact. Children still breathing. Stress levels back to normal.

The kids could not wait for their Daddy to be done with his "big tests" so that we could go and get a Christmas tree. Poor Jonah was distraught over the fact that we didn't have one yet! So on Wednesday night, we shimmied over to the tree lot just down the street and let the boys pick out the one they wanted.

That same night, we headed over to The GreenHouse for the Oasis Christmas Party where a large group of people from Sanctuary was gathering to go caroling with the teens. We had a blast! (more on that event in a subsequent post).

And today, the kids got to perform some Christmas songs at church.  Riley was much too grumpy to participate.  Nicolas was cute as a button and did everything he was asked to do.  And Jonah hammed it up like the rock-star that he is.  Classic.   

It feels good to finally be able to partake in some Christmas festivities together as a family - just in the nick of time!