Merry Christmas!
Wishing all of you the JOY of family, the PEACE of a life in God's capable hands, and the LOVE shown so powerfully when God gave His Son for our eternal well-being.
It took a while to get a serious picture of the girls... here are some of the outtakes...
We had a Christmas party for our language school a few weeks ago and Dyet Moroz (Santa Claus) with his lovely helper, Snegoorechka (Snow Princess) came to ask us our New Year wishes (In Russia, Santa comes on New Year's Eve, not on Dec 24th). I wished for snow...
I don't know what it is like where you live, but we got a white Day-After-Christmas! This is the view from my kitchen window.
But, we have no fear of the cold. Steve keeps us in roaring fires all the day long!
Buying gifts in Russia has always been a challenge. The quality items that we are used to seeing in America are ridiculously overpriced here and the affordable things are very easily broken (in a word... cheap). So, we told the girls that they should exchange names in order to be able to get their sister something a little nicer. Unbeknownst to us, they just could not imagine Christmas without giving something to each sister, so they went through their own things and wrapped up what they knew each sister would love to have. 
You should have heard the ooohs and aaahs on Christmas morning! Though, I am not sure Brooklyn knows what to think about the sticker from the dentist that Cady gave her (look at her expression in the picture)! So, we have decided that this is a new Hayes Family Tradition. They have to start somewhere, don't they?
1 comment:
Love reading your updates.
Steve keeping the fire going reminds me of Seth doing that here. in fact, on Christmas day we had a HUGE fire, outside, in our yard, that almost got out of control, all from a few old ashes Seth threw in a ditch by our house. Apparantly his intention down deep he was hoping it'd burn the 20 foot brush/limb pile we had by our house. Well, it burned that......and then some. We were all alerted of the fire by a neighborn driving by JUST as we sat down to Christmas dinner with all my family. It was the excitement of the day. Seth even got his hair singed, and eyebrows toasted...
I always joke that we just like making memories. :-)
We miss you all and think of you often and pray for you.
Gods blessings on your 2007!
Did you get our Christmas letter/pictures?
Abby~
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