Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Christmas 2008

Christmas has come and gone, but not without tremendous blessing for the Gaines family as we spent time with loved ones creating new memories. Abigail and I were talking about a week before that this was our most memorable Advent ever. Below are some snapshots and a video of some of the highlights. Grace became captivated with "Baby Jesus" with no prompting from her parents (heck, I was really into elves and talking snowmen) and her curiosity and joy captured the season most poignantly for all of us. In the video below note her keen interest in Baby Jesus so much so that a bit later, young Joseph was forced to fend her off! Take a look...


The Christmas Eve dress!


Grace scored a role as a young sheep in the Christmas Eve drama. Check out her performance in the video below!




We got Grace what she most loves to play with these days...a doll


Grace and her friend Jocelyn getting ready to "feed hungry friends" as Grace said


Grace making new friends in LA and helping as only she can

Monday, December 08, 2008

Gettin' Into the Word

Tonight, after dinner we were doing our traditional advent reading from the Bible. Grace always insists on having her little pink Bible at the table as well. We finished our reading for the night and yet Grace wasn't done. As you'll see in this video, she began to read Scripture on her own, and if nothing else, she sure got the message of the book right!