The Stubblefield Family

1. Picking out a Christmas tree with cousin Maddy, Uncle Adam, Daddy and Papa Jim.
2. Card shark lessons and lots of love from Papa Jim.
3. Cuddles with Nana.
4. Cooking in the kitchen, art projects, gingerbread cookies and lots of fun playing with the cousins.
5. Kerplunk!
6. Christmas Sunday and Grandma Lois's talk.
7. The Baby Shower. (Bring on the cousins!)
8. Christmas Eve dinner and Great-Grandpa Hastie's/Papa Jim's famous malts. Yum!
9. Pajama Party
10. Christams Eve Pagent...Rhynnie was the donkey, Papa Jim and Nana were wise men, Uncle Tim a shepherd, Aunt Judie, Elsie and friends the sheep, Aunt Becky was the star, Hannie was the angel, Maddy was Mary and Benjamin was a beautiful baby Jesus. Noah enjoyed the entire scene with the narator, Uncle Adam.
11. Hannie sleeping all night in her Angel dress.
12. The tree.
13. The morning.
14. Ben in his Santa hat digging into new toys!
15. Aunt Becky, Uncle Thad, Aunt Judie and Uncle Tim, AKA...Givers of love, Assemblers of Play Kitchens, Santa Claus.
16. Girl talk.


17. Visiting with Grandma Lois.
18. The Museum of Life and Science with the Sechrists.
19. Visiting with Jerry, Emily, baby Allison and the Hatch family.
20. Coming home with a sleigh full of goodies and hearts full of love and good times.

We've been without internet for a little while. Sorry for the blogging back log to come, but we wouldn't want you to miss the highlights of the last month or so. :)

We'll begin by ringing out the old...

The evening of the Holiday Lights Safari, after our last post, Hannah began suffering from severe ear infections in both ears. It was a pretty sad time for us all as she was so ill, and before it was all over we were a perfect 4 for 4 on ER visits in 2007.

Hannah began to recover in time to visit Santa Claus before we left for NC. Despite Debbie's best efforts to make sure that she was firmly grounded in the knowledge that Santa is a delightful Christmas legend :), Hannah developed a rather adorable love and affection for him this year (we're thinking it was all the Christmas movies she watched while she was recovering :). By the end of her illness she was asking us rather fervently to take her to meet him. Unfortunately, the Santa at the mall was a pretty grouchy guy and when we got there Hannah wouldn't even look at him. He really left us wondering why he hadn't considered another line of work. :(

Then, Christmas, of course, was a pure delight (see our top 20 memories post).

And, since coming home we've been sorting, organizing, generally setting our house in order and settling into Jared's new school schedule. We have just a little over a year and a half to go!