Celebrating Christmas all month long...

Here we are 3 days away from Christmas, wow!! We have had a busy month and have enjoyed all the traditions and celebrations leading up to Christmas.

We enjoyed each others company and the lights at the Amarillo Botanical Gardens.

 Makayla sang at Panhandle Plains Historical Museum with Amarillo Youth Choir.

James Henry is the only Lis kid left who will sit with Santa!

 We went skating with our 5th and 6th graders from church for our Christmas Party.

I like to call this James' Tebow pose!

James Henry and I went with Makayla's class to see The Nutcracker ballet.

 Amarillo Youth Choir had their annual Songs Of The Season concert.

We attended the Christmas party for the workers in Children's Ministry at our church.

I can't even describe how blessed we are by this group of Godly people.

 James Henry's pre-k class went caroling.

Makayla had her end of the semester play at Amarillo Little Theater.

Then there were the class Christmas parties....

6th grade karaoke

making a "snowman" game

This weekend God gave us some beautiful Christmas snow!

 And, tonight we made The Lis Family Gingerbread cottage!

James Henry turned 5

Our sweet "Baby" James Henry turned 5 last week and of course we celebrated all week long!
First we went and saw Frozen at the movies! This was James Henry's pick over going to dinner.

Then we celebrated with some present opening at home..

On Wednesday morning December 4th, we woke him up with a birthday song and a gift!

Even our elf Cocoa joined us in celebrating!

Then off to school he went to celebrate with his class.

We bought donuts to share with his friends.

On Saturday we had his 5th birthday party! We held it in the play zone at our church and he chose a Star Wars theme. It was a great day!

We were so blessed by all our friends who came!

The last five years have blown by in a blur. James Henry is such a gift from God, he fills our lives with silliness and joy! We are so blessed by him!

Looking back at November

I can hardly believe it is December 2nd! November went by in a blur but it was a lot of fun!

                                   We packed our shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child...

I co-hosted a baby shower for a dear friend...

James got a stripe on his blue belt!

We celebrated James Birthday!

His gifts....(yes, we love him!)

Said good-bye to the last of Bayou's puppies...

Had some fun at the discovery center....

Watched the first snowfall of the season.....

and celebrated Thanksgiving and all that we have to be thankful for this year, and it is a long list!

Thankful

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! After we prayed over dinner yesterday, we all took a turn to say what we were thankful for this year and I know a lot of people make a list via social media, so I thought I would post mine here. We are so blessed and have so much to be thankful for! 

29 days of Thankfulness..

1) my salvation in Jesus Christ

2) a godly husband and best friend

3) Makayla Marie Lis

4) Christopher James Lis

5) James Henry Lis

6) a wonderful God living church family

7) an amazing group of Christian women who have taught me the meaning of true friendship

8) financial freedom (thank you Dave Ramsey!)

9) two newer dependable vehicles

10) our house, our home

11) food on the table and in the cabinets

12) our Sunday School class

13) the gift of serving alongside amazing people

14) life lessons

15) having a best friend since 1st grade

16) still having both my parents on Earth

17) the family I married into 

18) 5 silly all-boy nephews!

19) Amarillo, TX~ finally a place to call home!

20) my wieght loss journey and 2nd chance at life

21) friends that live all over the country

22) the blessing of living in America

23) jiu jitsu~ it has done so much for the men in my life

24) ALT~where Makayla found her "thing" in life!

25) James' job~ and all that it provides us

26) my mom and I are going on a mother/daughter cruise in one month!

27) memories 

28) our crazy busy schedule~ we are blessed to be so busy!

29) another year on this Earth with my family 

 

 

Fall Family Pictures

We just had new family pictures taken by our friend Brittany at Brittany Myers Photography. She did an amazing job and I love how they all turned out plus, we couldn't have asked for a more beautiful fall day! Here are some of our favorites...

Thank you to Mary at Bright Sunshine Designs for updating the pictures on my blog!