Mark and Jessica Spangler

Every year I, Jess, have made the kids new jammies that we give them the night before Christmas Eve. This year I don’t have my sewing machine so we bought the jammies. Here they are posing after they threw on their jammies.

This is a special treat that our butcher gave us to taste. We tried to eat with fig jelly but the store was all out of it for Christmas. The kids tried it too and some liked it, some loved it and we all agreed it wasn’t bad! Thanks to our butcher for getting us out of our comfort zone.

Yes this is onion jelly!

This bread is a bit sweet with noissettes, or hazelnuts and golden raisins baked into it. Yummy!

Here are pictures of the youngers being too cute to pass up! They were snugglie and smootchie and Zoe had the cutesy little pony. So, enjoy the cuteness.

Caleb was so cute and snuggly on my lap, I couldn’t kick him off to play Christmas songs! So instead, we sat together and played. It was a bit of a challenge but well worth the snuggled and music.

Thanks to Drew for giving us this travel guitar we can sing music together as a family!

Here is a package from the Torgersons! They have been so good to us! We had so much fun opening it and we are still having fun playing with the stuff inside! THANK YOU!!!

We used to go to school in a castle. We will have to post pictures of the outside of it later. But, here is the Christmas party and other parts of the castle.

The choir

Ali, Ysis, Kristel and others

Cory and Susanne

Fina and Angela

The kids got a gift from Santa (Pere Noel)

The Chapel

All of our children have many facial expressions to be sure but here are a bunch, just in last last month, of Caleb.

Attentive

Scary

Roaring to be very scary

One eye brow raised

Other eye brow raised

Back again

Silly

Seriously?

Cheesy

Cute

Sweet

Running fast face!

Before our friend Susanne left for Christmas break she came and ate with us and played with us! She also brought us such a meaningful gift. It is a nativity from Africa bade from banana leaves I believe. Thanks Susanne! It means more to us than you know!

This is it set up in the entry way!

The kids built a fort in the living room this morning! It brings back memories for most of us I’m sure! They sure enjoyed it!

Ali finally got some new earrings! Her ears are a bit sensitive and a friend who also has sensitive ears told us sterling silver works best for her. After some research and searching we finally found some! Here they are! She would love for everyone to know about her new earrings!