Fun Firsts

We had a wonderful Christmas and we are truly blessed. Here are some pics from the wonderful holidays we had. The kids of course received WAY more stuff than they ever needed, but enjoyed every minute. This was Shelby's first year to really understand about Santa and she counted down the days and minutes until it was time for Santa. She was so excited and it was wonderful to witness the magic in her eyes first hand.

We are getting to experience many more "firsts" with Faith and it is really neat to see her blossom before our eyes. Unfortunately we missed alot of those with Shelby so every new first for her is a very special one. The joy of Santa Claus was really special to enjoy with Shelby. I have to remind myself to slow down sometimes to be sure to capture all the "firsts" with all of my children.

Travis had a first this year too...shooting is very own Red Ryder BB Gun for the first time. He is certainly all boy and really gets excited about guns and stuff.

I wasn't too excited to witness Caleb's "first" this time...it was killing his first bird-YUCK! I hope I don't have a weird kid on my hand for being so excited about killing a living animal, but he really really was excited. I guess it must be a boy/man thing since I certainly don't get it. Oh well we told him to not shoot anything else alive especially not in the back yard anymore. Caleb had to go bury the bird along with a rabbit that got hit by a car in front of the house. He was just as excited to bury dead animals-weird child.

And last but not least, here is a video of us watching our baby Faith started to take her first steps with a little help of course. Our lives are so much fun it is truly a miracle :)