Christmases Past and Present

Merry Christmas to all our friends and family. We pray you have a wonderful time celebrating Christ's birth! For fun, here are some pics of our Christmases since Kevin and I have been married...

Our very first Christmas together (2004). We spent our first Christmas together in Memphis instead of visiting either family. Reason: we just got married the September before and took a wonderful honeymoon to London/Scotland, so we were poor broke! It was a sweet time even though we missed our families. We spent it with friends there in Memphis and had a fun time opening packages from our folks and siblings.



Christmas 2005, with the addition of Stone...look how cute he is! This Christmas was a little crazy! Not only did we have Stone just 2 months before, but we flew to WV (yeah, with a 2 month old!) to visit my folks and then moved to Alabama just 1 day after we got back. Uh, what WERE we thinking? Don't know, but we were on some kind of crazy adventure.




Christmas 2006, just after Stone turned 1. (Yep, Stone is still cute!) This was our first Christmas in Greenville. We were still living with K's folks so since we got to spend lots of time with them, we decided to visit my folks again in WV. It was our last Christmas in the house where I grew up, so it was very special. This Christmas also brings back the memory of how on the day we were to leave to go to WV, K's temp job called him and told him he was "laid off" cause the job was over. Great. Merry Christmas. Then, on the way to WV, just 5 hours later after that call, the HR lady at the company he's currently with called him and offered him a full-time job! Yeah, Merry Christmas!!




Christmas 2007....(nothing has changed, Stone is still a cutie!!) This is our 2nd Christmas in Greenville and we are celebrating in our own house, and then of course with family as well. Last year, we and K's parents both put up our trees, but we left the rest of our decorations in storage. This year, even though we're in our own place, our house is still so small that most of our decorations are still in storage! We don't care, we decorated what we could and make the most of what we have. Another job story goes with this Christmas as well. K had an interview just this past Friday for a job at a local bank for a credit analyst position. Even though we won't know the outcome until after Christmas, we are praying this is the door God will open for us. If not, we know He has something else in store. Also, I have an upper endoscopy scheduled for the morning (Christmas Eve). Kind of a weird thing to have done on Christmas Eve but it turned out to be the best day to have it. Life continues to be an adventure.. we just try to take one day at a time!