We love our friends!

Scott and I headed to Houston this weekend to visit our friends, Brad and Jenny. We have so many wonderful memories with this couple, and I just wish we could take away their pain. They are suffering right now (although their attitudes do not show it even a little bit). Please keep them and thier family in your prayers. Jenny's blog will have updates.

When we got home, the boys and I made this masterpiece of icing and gingerbread cookies. It's supposed to be a Christmas tree. It looks like icing covered dog doo.

Santa visited Brad and Zeke a little early, and he also sent a shelf elf to keep an eye on the boys. The boys had fun (well, Brayden had no idea what was going on, but Bryce is all about it) reading the book and finding the elf. Bryce talked about it all night. All night. Nonstop. He started on the tv and is already back from the visit with Santa and landed on our mantle. They named him Kirby. Like the vacuum. Every time Brayden would throw a fit tonight, Bryce would tell him that Kirby is going to tell Santa. Sweeeeeeet.

Finally, our small group knew we would need a distraction after coming home from Houston, so they brought over pizza. My mom got us a ping pong table for Christmas, so we had a tournament-like we made a bracket and everything. Scott won. Dork. We also played Around the World until we couldn't breathe anymore...

The kids didn't mind being completely ignored. They seemed to entertain themselves.

All in all, it was a great weekend. We stayed with Jason and Carrie (friends from our old small group in Houston) on Saturday night. It was great to see everyone and be able to try our best to lend some support to Brad and Jenny. We are so thankful for the wonderful friends God has placed in our lives. We will continue to pray for complete and total healing for Brad and we beg all of you do the same.