Cousin PJ's
My Koop
Ella Rose's 1st Christmas
"Brax"
The Hartsock boys and all of their kids!
We wish you a Merry Christmas!
Nana & Papa
Our little drummer boy! Kooper got drums for Christmas!
Papa & Michael
"The Shack"
Sometimes boys just need to duke it out!
I love looking back at all my Christmas pictures from years past. It is amazing to see how much our family has grown. When Jake and I got married my nephews Jake and Luke were the only 2 kids in our family; well our siblings kids. Now we have 6 kids on the Bower side and 9 kids and one on the way on the Hartsock side (no I'm not pregnant - Blake and Marci are expecting baby #3 this summer). Needless to say Christmases are just fun and we are committed to it remaining all about Jesus so I am sure we will have many things change in the years to come in an effort to help our children keep their focus on Jesus and the great gift He is to us - Thank you God for your son! On Christmas eve - eve (night of the 23rd) we have Christmas with Bob and Judi, and all their kids and grandkids. So all 17 of us eat dinner, open gifts and play. We all wear matching PJ's and spend the night at Juju and Grandad's. The next morning we wake up and after having yummy cinnamon rolls Sarah makes we go to the court's for some major fun. One big thing each of the cousins got this year are the cool camo trucks! We then had Christmas eve afternoon with my mom's family and then my family comes to our house for PJ's, gingerbread house making contest, games and gifts. No one left until the wee hours of the night b/c we had several gifts for the next morning that they graciously helped us assemble and paint. Christmas morning we played with all our fun gifts; read the Christmas story and talked about how grateful we are that God humbled himself and came to earth as a helpless baby in order to bring us back to God; and ate yummy french toast casserole. It doesn't end there though; we went to Juju and Grandad's for lunch to celebrate with the Hartsock bunch.
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Love all the pictures! Thank you so much for sharing! Love seeing all those babies! Our family is starting to grow as well and it is so exciting! Such blessings!!! Your babies are all so adoreable! I love Preslee's big girl bed, her little tree dress and hat....such a little doll! All of the news about your church planting sounds very exciting!!! Keep us posted!
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