Thursday, December 29, 2016

Ford Family Christmas Celebration

The day after Christmas we headed down to St. Louis for our annual tradition with Nana Kay and Papa C. Usually my siblings and their families make it down, but as families grow and life happens it seems to be more of a challenge to get everyone together. I can see that being in our future too as the kids grow older and we'll come up against sports schedules over the break, etc. For the time being though, as long as we can, I want to make sure we're able to get together as much as possible with family because that's very much a priority for us.

The kids traveled great down to St. Louis and the first night there we had our Christmas celebration with my parents. We started off with our traditional Christmas prayer before our meal that is a song we sing. The first picture shows Micah singing it which just warmed my heart - as it's the first time he's been able to join in on that tradition. A sign that he's growing up but also a piece of what good can come from getting older. They loved their gifts, as you can tell from the faces and hugs I was able to capture.

The next day we headed out to see Moana, and what a fun movie it was! There also seemed to be quite the amount of biblical symbolism in there with the creation of the world and Adam and Eve, which Micah seemed to really understand as we discussed it which was kinda cool. The next day we headed out to the zoo (shocker! 😉) and then I actually met up with my best friend from high school, Sabrina. It had been about 8.5 years since we had seen each other and let me tell you - that's a long time! It was fun catching up and meeting her two girls and having her meet Gemma (the boys stayed home!) and I'm glad we were able to get together! Later that night, Christian and I were able to hang out with the Davis', Jason and Betsy. They moved to Kansas City about 18 months ago and we were sad to lose their friendship in a every day life form, but we've managed to maintain a friendship via our St. Louis connection, as Jason and I went to youth group and high school together.

Other than that, we had a lot of fun at home, playing games and puzzles, coloring and racing our new remote control cars. We even stayed an extra day because we weren't able to see my dad that much due to his heavy working schedule and played a new game Christian had picked up called "Ticket to Ride: Europe." It was a fun game and I'm sure we'll play it lots more in the future!

All in all it was a great trip and hopefully next Christmas more of my siblings and nieces and nephews can join in on the fun 😊.





























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