Friends that Become Family

What an amazing blessing it is to have friends that become your family! Jim & Karen are such a huge blessing in our life and have had such a huge influence on our little family. These 2 amazing folks began keeping Connor when he was 4 months old and very quickly became our family. This past week Jim & Karen made the trip up to see us. We had such a wonderful time relaxing, spending time together, catching up and of course eating good food!We braved the chilly weather on Friday night and went Caroling downtown.
My adorable mom & dad joined in on the festivities!
Connor & Rick taking a break from singing (since the folk singers didn't really have much 'sing along' caroling, more "performance") and built a small snowman.

The Crew...sad that the two oldest boys are the ones who aren't cooperating for the photo...=)

My Sweet, Handsome Boys...LOVE THEM!

Jim & Karen gave Connor his Christmas gifts while they were here. He certainly LOVED opening and playing with all his toys! Thank you guys so much!



He was SO excited about his Thomas MegaBlocks Set! It has been such a blast to create all sorts of fun set-ups with this block set!

Thank you Big Jim! (the pic I had of C hugging Karen was blurry...)

Almost all together...

The big boys 'playing' with Connor's toy (this is actually probably the 2nd or 3rd time they put it together due to Connor playing really hard with it!)

So Intense!

Jim & Karen reading Frosty the Snowman for C's bedtime story
Thank you guys so much for making the trip! We thoroughly enjoyed the time we were able to spend with you all and we are so very thankful to have you all in our life! Thank you for being such a wonderful giving family and thank you for choosing to share life with us! We love y'all!!!