We had a wonderful time celebrating our Saviour's birth and traveling to see family in MI and IN! We were out of town for about 10 days! It was fun but we are glad to be back home and back to "normal" life! Below are some pics of our travels and Christmas fun. The girls enjoyed all the fun of Christmas and we enjoyed seeing Isabelle beocome more aware this year of the true meaning of Christmas ans be able tell us that Christmas is about Jesus and sing songs about His birth! Isabelle and Ireland enjoyed opening presents this year and getting some new things to play with. Ireland has seemed to change a lot over these past few weeks with becoming more independent and more vocal! She is able to say more now. Some of her words are baby, mommy (very clearly and loud, esp when she wants me!), uh-oh!, ow!, daddy, Bible, no(not the best thing!), ball, and there are probably a few more but these are the ones we hear most! She is also very close to taking up walking as a full-time mode of transportation now...finally!! She will be 17mo on the 15th and I think she'll be really walking by then. She will walk if she's told to walk to a certain place. And just the last couple of days she has started to stand up on her own in the middle of the room and take some steps. She still loves to crawl and she's pretty fast but the walking is getting better!!! I'll have to post some video soon! Here are some pics of the blessings we enjoyd at Christmas this year!