This year for Christmas we were in warm Sunny Georgia!!! We just love the winter down there. We're not sure if we could really make it through the summer with all the heat, but it sure is nice to go there when it's in the teens here in MD.
We left here about 1 pm and arrived there about 1:30am we had planned to stop for the night, but Jon was so excited to get home that we drove though!
We snuck into His Dad and Ruth's without waking them up, and surprised them in the morning!
It was a fun surprise! It was a great way to start out our time there!
Christmas was so fun this year with the kids. One of our gifts from Jon's Dad and Step Mom was a trip for all of us to Callaway Gardens.
It was a great trip . We we arrived we went to our Chalet and got our winter clothes on and then headed out to the Light show. (It was to be in the 30's that night. what happened to the heat?)
We got on a tram and enjoyed an hour of Lights and Christmas music. it was great. some of us thought that it was way to cold but others thought it was great!!! I thought it was warm cause of all the memories that we were making!!!;)
A little later you'll get to see some of our lights!
We were blessed with a fun time there ending for us with a warm fire. it was a great time just to be together.
We did miss Jason our brother-in law. He had to say and work. we were sorry that we didn't get to spend time with him.

We got to have two Christmas's! One with Dad & Ruth and One with Mom.

Liam and Lanna are very blessed to have so many grandparents that love them to death!
At Mom's we had a special time. on Christmas evening we piled into the van and went looking for Lights and listened to Christmas music it was great fun.
and we ate and ate! I got to eat some of the recipes that Jon remembered from when he was little. they were yummy!!!
There is just something about southern cookin! :)
We had such a special time in GA. we always hate to see it end.

Here are just a few pix of our fun time there in GA.





Ready for the Sun!!!



Cousins, Sweet Sweet Cousins!
Time with Grandma Moorman

Matching Dresses for Christmas Sunday!

Liam loves his new train!

Opening gifts with Aunt DeeDee ( Christy)

Our Christmas Babies!

Callaway Gardens!!!

We were ready for the Chilly Night

Here we go....

Liam just loved the lights,

We would go through one area and He'd get all excited about the next. with a "Woooo Mama look!" I think enjoyed listening to the kids as much as the lights!

Georgia Snow?


At the Chalet we are all warm with spiced tea and Carmel cake! ( Happy Birthday Mema!)

Rob was showing the guys how to make a good fire ;)

Rob and Christy!

The cousins got matching PJs!

We love you Pop & Ruth,

Thanks for a great time at Callaway!

We'll that sould do it for Christmas in GA.

We loved spending time together with everyone. What a precious family we have.

We'll thats all for now. maybe in a few days I'll get our Christmas at home all done. or better yet just come on over to MD and look at our scrapbooks! I should have them done in the next few months ;).

We pray that you had a blessed Christmas centered around what matter the most Christ Birth and what He's done for us.

We love you !

Hello and Happy New year!
We are home... whoooo. It's good to go way but boy is it good to come home.
Our time away went fast we were in IN. with Carra's family for thanksgiving. we'll use this update to blog about that and then we'll do GA. in just a few min!
We had a blast just being together.
People always ask about what we do when were gone and all we really say is that " we just hang out and visit and enjoy being together".
Thanksgiving Day was great with lots of yummy food and family.
We went to My Grandparents ( The Zeigler's ) for Brunch and then to my Aunt Earlene's for Dinner. It was so good to see everyone, it had been a year or so since we had seen some of them.
A neat added blessing is that we got to spent time with my cousin and her husband and their little girl who are over seas and were home for the holidays.We are very blessed. as we traveled home Jon and I reminisced about how blessed we are and all the things that the Lord has given us.
Wow. what an awesome God we serve!Well if I'm going to get the GA. trip in I need to get going.
Here's a few pix from IN.


The Whole Zeigler family!



The Cousins all 15!


Baby Creed

Each year the kids do the Christmas story and this year was the best yet.

We laughed and I think Grandma cried! I was so fun to watch the little ones kinda grasp what it might of really been like.

Mary and Baby Jesus

Everyone checking out the baby

The three cutest sheep ever!

Everyone but Ben. ( he was the narrator)


For Thanksgiving/Christmas Lunch my Mom loves to have us all that the same table. so this year we used 4, 6 foot tables and 3 high chairs to get us all at the table.

It was a sweet time we went around and told something that we were thankful for and then the men read some Bible verses that had to do with thankfulness.

Here is Elhanna with her Great Grandpa & Grandma Clouse.
Lanna is the 40Th great grandchild!

Special Cousin time. :)

Sometimes it feels like all we do is eat!!! But I don't think the Boys minded!

Lanna and Creed are about 4 months a part.

It was sweet to watch all the cousins play together.

The whole Budd Family!
We love you Papa and Mamaw. Thank you for a great Thanksgiving and Christmas in IN.

Since being home from IN. we have found out that My Mom Charlene needs to have heart surgery in the next few weeks or month.

Please pray that the Lord would get her into Cleavland to do the Surgery there.

We'll keep you updated on how she is doing.

and too pray for Jon, he will be home alone again while the kids and I head to IN to be with Mom at this time.

Thanks!

We're here!!!

Hello!!!
After 12 hours in the car yesterday we are finally in GA. we arrived last night... well this morning at about 1 am! We were going to stay over at hotel, but Jon was so excited to get there that we kept going and going and going, and about 1 am we snuck into his Dad's house. we were so quite that they didn't realize we were here till this morning!!! it was a fun surprise for them and us too!
The trip went well and the kids did great. Lima loved looking at the Christmas lights as we went along, He loved them so much that he woke up Ellie cause he was so excited about the lights!!!!
We are so excited for the kids to be with their Pepa and Mema. and Grandma.
We will be using their cum. while were here so we won't be able to post any pix. till we get home. but we promise that we'll put some on asap!

Oh, if you think about it please Pray for My( Carra's) Mom Charlene. she is having some test done on her heart today! she's been having trouble for a few weeks now and so they went ahead and did some test today. We are praying that it's not as they think it might be, but something simple not her heart.
We'll keep you up dated when we find out anything !
Thanks so much!!!
Have a great Day

Thanksgiving/ Christmas in IN.

Hey there!!!
We are home for a few weeks before we head to GA. to be with the rest of the family for Christmas Day!
Here are the long awaited pix from our IN trip!


Our very very Live nativity!!
It was so cute! the Kids had fun!

Kissing Bush!!!

Kissing Cousins

Our Family!!!

Have a great week and will update in a few weeks withe pix form GA!

Please Pray!

We just wante to let everyone know that we are heading out to IN.
But it's winter here in MD and so what comes with that ... SNOW!!!!!!
and yes it's comming down!
Please pray for us as we travel this afternoon!
Thanks!

Hey there!!
We just wanted to share some new pix with you!
Have a great week.





Guess what were working on?
Liam got to help put in the new parking lot at church!

Look how many sticks I can hold!

Lanna's new cloth diaper Our Cloth Diaper babies

We love you have a good week!

Red Team Fun!!!!

This weekend we got the privilege to host the Life Action Red team at our church.
It was a fun blessing to see the new team and get to see old friends too!!!
It also Liam see & Elhanna got to meet Nate Kingsley our good friend that we travailed with when we were with on the road with them before we were married!
It was a great weekend we were sorry to see it end.


Hanging out at our house

Before the team left we got a quick pix!

We'll try to put more on this week of the kids!

Have a blessed week.

We love you!