We just sent out our family Christmas letter. We tried to keep it short but we directed everyone to the blog. I tried to send a good mix of pictures that summed up a lot of the highlights and so I thought I should include the pictures in the blog.
Now I know this will be somewhat redundant for those of your who've already read the family Christmas letter (which is probably most of you) but I want a good place to display all our pictures too. Besides I need the material to make us look fun and interesting to any potential birth family :)
This first one, was of our big snow fall in November. It was way fun (can't you tell by the look on Ezra's face what a blast he's having:) Here he just build a snow man with our next door neighbor Isabella (actually it was really the dads who did all the work while the kids occasionally helped roll the giant snow balls and then taking the new found knowledge to create miniature balls to pelt at each other. I'm guessing Isabella won the snowball fight by the look on Ezra's face.)
My sister Christina came to visit for my birthday weekend, to go to the adoption conference with us and to meet our 4th cousin Duval. Ryan and I met Duval in Arizona and shortly thereafter he moved to Washington. Within the year we followed. Not on purpose...well, okay maybe a little on purpose. It has been such a blessing to get to know him. He's written amazing books about living through the great depression. He ran away from home and eventually made enough money to care for his mother and family. Now before I exhaust that subject I better stop. If anyone wants to know more I could tell you where to find his books.
Ezra's birth family was going to join us at the adoption conference too but tragedy struck and they had to attend a funeral instead. We were so happy they were able to stop by and visit us on their way back home. We just can't help loving these people who love Ezra so much.
Yes, these master pieces are ginger graham houses. We started out trying to create the nativity scene but...Ryan's architectural genius couldn't be restrained and instead he made a two story mansion. Ezra had a great sugary creation too but somehow using the camera timer kept him too perplexed to keep it on display for very long.
We needed proof of our fun family activities so we included this one-actually I choose to include this picture because not everyone had seen Ryan's facial hair. But Ryan became a veil worker in the LDS temple and he had to shave it off. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Ryan's parents came to visit us this summer. As it happened to land on Linda's (Ryan's mom) birthday we decided to celebrate with a Dairy Queen ice cream cake. Wow, those are so good!
This is Ryan's sister Carin. She graduated from Norther Arizona University and has moved to Washington to be near us...and to go to graduate school. It just happened to be a happy coincidence that her school was close to us.
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