Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

So the game is tied at 33 points. And whose little brother scored the winning basket against an undefeated team in a playoff game??? Oh yeah—mine!!! (:

(I posted this on facebook too ‘cause I’m just so dang proud of him!)

News….And A Strange Joel Quote

"If you lick that knife, your dignity will become a concrete noun and escape the prison of your body through the blood gushing from your tongue." --Joel

I do not understand that boy...but our conversations make for good Facebook statuses.

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In other news, my grandpa finally got the German shepherd he’s been wanting for years! His name is Buddy (not sure if they’ll keep that name), and he’s nine months old. He’s already trained and he’s super sweet. We went over and met him tonight. He was acting really nervous because he wasn’t used to his new home and all these new people, but my grandpa seemed so happy. (: We’re coming to Florida this Thursday for the weekend (yay!), so Hobbes will get to stay at Grandma and Grandpa’s house and get to know Buddy.

One more thing: tonight I dropped my film off at Walmart, so soon I’ll be able to see all of the pictures I took with my fancy shmancy camera! I’ll post some of them here. (:

Have a great week, everybody!

Happy Birthday, Dad!

I love you, even if you are a little weird.

Christmas!

We had so much fun during Christmas! Everyone in our family came this year. We had both sets of grandparents, both sets of aunts and uncles, and all of our cousins! (Well, all three of them… :P) All of the F’s stayed at Grandma and Grandpa F’s house, and all of the L’s and S’s stayed at our house.

On Christmas morning, the L kids and the S kids opened our stockings. There’s Josh and Luke.  

Left to right: Joel, Ashley, Josh, Rachel, Luke

Ashley loves anything that has to do with princesses! Here she is with her princess snow globe. (:

Down at the F house, Mollie opened her stocking, too.  

Then we all went down to the F house for breakfast.  

Uncle Mike makes the best french toast! 

We hung out there for a while, and then everyone came back to our house to open presents!

Hooray for a cousin picture where everyone is looking at the camera!

Oh, Mollie… :P

Awww!

One tradition in our family is to always read the Christmas story before we open presents. This year, we read about the first coming of Jesus, and then his second coming in Revelation.

Then it was time to open presents! We take turns, going youngest to oldest. Mollie starts, of course!

      

That’s…interesting…

       

Mollie loves to help out, so her mob and broom were one of her favorite presents. (:  

Later, of course, we had a delicious dinner. It was so nice to have our big kitchen and island to use this year instead of our tiny one at the rental!

The Boys, Ashley, and I all got puzzles as one of our gifts. So the next few days, there was always someone working on one.

   

Finished!

We had a great Christmas with our whole family. I hope you and your family had as much fun as we did celebrating the birth of our Lord! (:

ACT

I'm taking the ACT tomorrow morning. I'd appreciate it if you'd take a minute to pray for me! (mostly that I don't stress out too much; I'm just doing it to get an idea of what it's like.)

-Rachel :)