Happy New Year!
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Monday, December 25, 2006
2006 In Review: The Family
Sam was released as Bishop in June and then in July deployed to Iraq for a year. We are praying that this is his last deployment. I'm still teaching seminary and still loving it. In April our family was chosen to be the AUSA Braxton Bragg Family of the Year, the kids loved it because they were able to check out of school early and have lunch with Army Astronaut, Shane Kimbrough. WE are so very grateful for the many blessings that have been poured out upon us this year........not to say that there haven't been tough times, but we've seen the Lord's hand in all things. WE are grateful for our friends......for old friends and new friends.... the influence you have had in our lives will be felt for generations. WE are grateful for our family and for our children who have taught us some amazing lessons. WE are thankful for our country and for the service men and women who are so much a part of our daily lives. WE are thankful for the sacrifices they and their families make so that we may enjoy the freedoms that so many of us take for granted. And most importantly WE are thankful for Jesus Christ. May WE all remember to seek him as wise men of old..... Merry Christmas from our Family to Yours. May the new year be filled with love and peace.
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2006 In Review: Abby
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2006 In Review: Jacob
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2006 In Review: Melissa
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2006 In Review: Alexander
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2006 In Review: Andrew
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2006 In Review: Shay
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2006 In Review: Kayla
It was a year of big changes for Kayla. In June she graduated from EE Smith High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina. In July she turned 18 and in November she got married! Wow! She and her husband Albert are looking for a house and planning on staying in Fayetteville, since his family is here as well.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Saturday, December 16, 2006
"At the focal point of all human history, a point illuminated by a new star in the heavens revealed for just such a purpose, probably no other mortal watched--none but a poor young carpenter, a beautiful virgin mother, and silent stabled animals who had not the power to utter the sacredness they had seen. Shepherds would soon arrive and later, wisemen from the East. Later yet the memory of that night would bring Santa Claus and Frosty and Rudolph--and all would be welcome.
But first and forever there was just a little family, without toys or trees or tinsel. With a baby--that's how Christmas began.”
It is for this baby that we shout in chorus: 'Hark! the herald angels sing Glory to the newborn King! . . . Mild he lays his glory by, Born that man no more may die; Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth' Jeffrey R. Holland
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