Happy Birthday Bray-Lynne & Merry Christmas!

Cousins :)
Grandma Judy & Grandma Nettie w/Bray giving the babydoll 'kisses'
Grandma & Grandma Van Zante w/Bray. Bray thought she'd frown for this picture
Bray-Lynne likes her Great-Grandpa Van Zante
Here she is in her birthday outfit made by Aunt Joyce - thanks!!
I painted her toes red for her b-day & Christmas.
Saying "cheese!" on her birthday
She really was trying hard to say "cheeeeeeese!" here

This past year has really flown by. I don't know where all the time went. Sometimes it felt like the days were dragging and other times they got away from us in no time. We have come a long way since last year & couldn't be more blessed with the path God has us on. Life has changed so much and we are in awe of his AWESOME power...love...grace...mercy....glory!! There have been many times in the past year that we have questioned "why are we here?", "what are we doing?", "what are we supposed to do?", "what now?" through all of those questions we turned to the power of prayer and our faith in God. HE has opened so many doors and we are beyond grateful!

The pictures above are from Bray-Lynne's 1st birthday party on December 23rd and our Christmas with the Van Zante/DeVries/Cowman family. We have many more pictures and many videos; however a lot of those were taken on other family member's cameras. Once I get a few more through email I hope to get those posted.

Snow storm

We might be going a stir crazy at our house :) We have been working on teaching Bray-Lynne to go up and down the stairs. She can go upstairs on her own just fine but going down is still a work in progress. She will do a couple but doesn't want to by herself yet. We also took a few pictures of the snow we got out here at the farm. On Monday night we got our tree completed and I included a few pictures of our stockings and other Christmas decor. Hopefully we can get out of the house today even for a quick trip to the grocery store...if it's too cold I guess tomorrow will be better!