Christmas Pics

Okay! I give up! I will NEVER catch up with all I want to post on here.....so I'm just gonna do a big picture post. We spent a wonderful week (many weeks ago) in Pennsylvania with my family celebrating Christmas! My sibs and their families were there also. My parent's house was packed with 8 adults and 4 little kiddos but we had a blast.

I am blessed beyond measure.

Here is my fabulous family...

Sweet cousins lined up in a row...Reading books with Gram...

Playdough with cousins!

We opened gifts!...AND stockings!No Sheppard family gathering is complete without some Settlers of Catan!

The kids had a blast at the children's museum with Uncle Brad, Uncle Justin, Daddy & Pop while us girls got to go swimming (indoors, of course!) and out to lunch!

It was quite cold and we never saw snow (can you believe it?!?) but we had fun outside anyway!

Hannah had a BLAST playing with her cousin, Summer, who is just a few months older...

Acting silly with her absolute favorite--Aunt Laura!!!

Did I mention that Aunt Laura is a "niece & nephew magnet"?

One of my favorite memories from the week is this....

On Christmas Day we read the Christmas story out of the Bible and the kids acted it out.

We had our own live nativity!

Hannah was an angel :)

Summer played the part of Mary and Pop played the part of a shepherd...

(little Deccan was Joseph!)

Natalie was a little shepherdess in the nativity...can you see her robe? and her sheep?

She had stage fright and sat in my lap the whole time.

We got to spend time visiting with extended family...grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles...

The Sheppard cousins...all grown up!

Sheppard siblings

What a wonderful week celebrating Christ's birth with all of my family that I love so dearly!