Family happenings . . .

As 2007 comes to a close, it's a wonderful time to reflect on all the blessings of the past year. We had four new members join our family in 2007 -
Lucy was born on February 1 - she is now almost 11 months old

Laiya came home from Hong Kong on April 28
Ben and Cathy were married on 7/7/07
Elle was just born to Ben and Erica on December 11
Last night we had our family party. Everyone was here - all 29 of us!! It gets a little crowded here, but we sure did have a lot of fun!
Some of the kids eating supper

Braden was pretty proud of his new baseball glove
Taeron having fun with new toys
Elle's first family party
Jacob's turn
Silly Zippora
Lucy just couldn't hold out any longer
Mass confusion
We are so thankful to have Laiya home this year!
Our tree was such a disaster that it went out the door today - there were more needles on the floor than on the tree! Oh, well, it convinced Dave to go with a fake one next year!

Laiya is surviving the snow - she claims she doesn't really like it though. We took a picture to send to her friends back in Hong Kong.

We want to wish you all a wonderful 2008!!

5 comments:

Katie said...

Boy - you weren't exaggerating when you were telling us of your tree! What a mess

Anonymous said...

Do you really call that a tree. hope you don't clog up your vacuum, I remember those days, we love our fake one.

denise said...

You will definately love the "fake" tree next year. I wouldn't recommend the pre-lit ones though. I plugged ours in this year and I think there were 10 bulbs that lit up. Had to string 700 bulbs in it and even Joy noticed all the bulbs that were broke! I was thinking about getting a real tree next year, but you may have convinced me otherwise!
Anyway, glad you had a good Christmas party with your family. Ours was wonderful too!
Happy New Year! Love you all, Denise

Lia said...

It was so good to see you over Christmas! I love all your pictures! It sure is a crazy time of year - How did you fit everyone at your house?!? You may have to consider renting a hall!! Hee Hee - It just shows how God is good and blesses us with great families!

joan b. said...

Finally getting around to checking some blogs....
That's quite a gang - sure fills your family room! How wonderful to all be together. You've had quite a year in 2007 - full of joy and blessings!
Love!