We Have a 3-year-old!!!!

WOW! We can't believe our little one is 3. She is growing so fast and if she doesn't slow down she'll be 16 tomorrow! Help us Lord =)

Caroline celebrated her Mickey Mouse themed birthday with her 6 cousins and aunt and uncle in Scottsdale last week. She absolutely had a ball. Art and I relaxed enjoying some leisure time and catching up with our family. So nice to have times like these. Then we came home and Caroline celebrated her actual birth date with her Papa and Grammy and Daddy and Mommy over some lasagna and a chocolate Dora cake. She has so many new toys to play with we might just keep all of her Christmas presents and save them for late Spring (though I don't think she'd be very excited about that).

All the Christmas decorations are up and we've had so much fun enjoying the season thus far, but there is a keen sense of absence that our Hudson is not with us. His little booties hang from the mantle as a reminder to celebrate his precious life and the Life we've received through the promise of our Lord's coming again. I want to make this Christmas so special for Caroline so that she'll truly understand what a wonderful gift we've been given through our Lord's life, death and resurrection; that we have such a wonderful gift still ahead to celebrate when He returns to take us home, all of us together as one big family.

Our hope and prayer is that we do not miss this season of Hope. That we accept every moment as another visitation of His Spirit and that we share it with everyone we come into contact with. He is doing some mighty things in our life and in our faith right now. I can't wait to share them with you as they unfold. For now I'll simply say, "Stop whatever you are doing and take the time to enjoy this moment!" Each moment renders the opportunity for life anew and we do not want to miss it!

Merry Christmas!