Santi Huron

Friday, January 30, 2009

Company...

Some of our good friends, the David Keener family from north Georgia, were down in Florida for a few days, and stayed overnight with us! We were so excited to have them in our home! This family has always been there to pray for us and support us for over 10 years now. It was so special to meet Mrs. Holly's mother, to hear "I'd Rather Have Jesus" sung by Mr. Keener and laugh when Abe said he slept without even snoring or moving because his over six foot body was in a twin bed.

We were also introduced to the IPhone....those things are so neat!

Thank you, Mr and Mrs. Keener, Abe and Mariah for stopping by!

Mariah and Samuel

Mr. Keener

IPhone

Laughing over "Chicken Bird"

(Interpreted: Road Runner)

Santi setting the table for breakfast...

Singing hymns in the living room

Listening to interesting stories...

Mrs. Maxine

Happy Anniversary

Our parents are celebrating 25 years of marriage! We are so grateful for them and for the wonderful example of devotion and true love to us children.

"What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder..."

The Lord bless you, Daddy and Mom!
Anita, Joshua, Luke, Cilicia, Alexis, Olivia, Benuel, Treasure, Paul, Santi, Jon-Michael, Peter, Samuel and Titus

25 years ago...

Today...

Happy Birthday, Ben!

Happy 16th Birthday, Ben!

Friday, December 26, 2008

Gingerbread Men

A little of this and a bang of that...

We thought it would be fun to make Christmas cookies for our neighbors, so we set out to make gingerbread men! After dividing the dough into four parts, they got to it! There was much flour flying and rolling pins banging.....banging?....it had to be explained that rolling pins roll....not bang. Titus (1) just wanted to be in on all the action, so we gave him a little flour to play with. When it was icing time, you had to keep a keen eye on those M&M's! Mom came in the kitchen to see all the mess and left laughing as she said her grandchildren will be the most artsy children, but her daughters will probably have a messy house. Of course, we laughed and said she was wrong....we would just do all the baking at the sister's house that was clean. =) The kitchen was a mess, but the boys had such fun. After seeing all the finger licking and wiping on the shirts, we decided we wouldn't burden our nice neighbors with such sweet contamination, so Olivia kindly made fresh, "clean" cookies for them the next day.

Enjoy the pictures above...

Family Christmas Pictures [behind the scenes]

Every year we take a family picture, and every year, we come home look at all the shots and mom laughs so hard she has tears coming down her face from all the funny faces everyone makes during the 200+ pictures that are taken. We don't necessarily look for a "perfect" family shot....simply one shot that everyone is looking at the camera. =) Of course, we have sister/brother shots, just the girls, just the boys...etc. This year, we chose the coldest day in Florida history to take our picture. =) Maybe we should try and do this from now on, because we only had to take 4 pictures! It either had something to do with the cold weather or the hot chocolate that was waiting at home...

Anyway, we didn't end up with such hilarious "behind the scenes" this year...there's always a first!