Sunday, January 10, 2016

pre-christmas fun

december is always packed...and as usual, i'm way behind on all my pictures, so i'm trying to play catch up. there's always lots of parties, and our annual marshall/vanderveer pre-christmas breakfast for dinner....but i've been terrible about taking pictures. one thing fun was that we signed up to host international students who were interested in having dinner in an american home. they connected us with two chinese girls...so we had them over for dinner one night! i admit, i was hesitant. the unknown is always a struggle for me...being excited about something that i have no idea about. yikes! but the Lord is so gracious with me, and continues to teach me about believing His word. relaxing and trusting him. and of course, it was awesome. cynthia (left) and julia (right) were so sweet. they even brought a ginger bread house for the boys to put together. it really was fun getting to know them...and we were SO proud of the boys! they talked and laughed with them...it was really sweet to see them interact and love on strangers!! we anticipate many more dinners with these sweet ladies!!

andy has the privilege of officiating several upcoming weddings...this one was in town, and so it was fun to have the marshalls with us!! looking forward to many more weddings!! i think we have 5 from nov '15-july '16!! we really love this stage of life!!!