December

Wow!! It has been a busy but fun month for our family. Here is a recap of some of the things we were able to do together as a family. We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Lots of love.....

Christmas Parties (which I was in charge of... SO glad those responsibilities are over, but we did have SO much fun!!!)

Christmas Nativity & Party- Every year we head on over to our friends the Olsen's for an amazing night. We fill our belly's with delicious food, have the kids act out a live nativity, then Mr & Mrs Clause come and deliver presents (PJ's) in a big red sack for each child. This really has been such a fun tradition for our family.... we are going to miss it when we move and will just have to continue the tradition in AZ

Austin's birthday party at Aloha fun park....

A leave of absence....

Just so you know if I announce a leave of absence it clears me from any guilt whatsoever for not posting for awhile. I am getting ready for Christmas, for company, helping at the school, attending school parties & other Christmas parties, you get the idea. So I probably won't have a good post for awhile. If by chance there is a good post consider it a Christmas bonus :) I just hope every one has a Merry Christmas and that you all know there is a girl in Texas that loves all ya'll a ton.

Lots of love,
Steph

First annual twangle dirty mustache and eggnog bonanza

Well for all of you who have regular Christmas parties out there.... enjoy them, because you never know when your husband's colleagues are going to throw a dirty mustache and eggnog bonanza instead :) Dave spent that last two weeks growing a mustache for this fabulous event. Although I love my hubby very much, I am still not sure if he can pull off a mustache. There were some amazing Christmas sweaters sported last night. And for all of you Office watchers, yes Dave's was a Liz Claiborne original. We really had such a good time and I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. Ladies and gentlemen let me introduce the future Orthondists of America...

Christmas Cards

Anyone who would just love to have a picture of the Farnsworth boys tucked away in their received Christmas cards pile please email me your address :) Thanks so much!
daveandstephfarns@msn.com


Loves & hugs,
Steph

Journey to Bethlehem

One thing I love about living in the Bible Belt are the big productions the HUGE churches put on. Tonight we went to a Baptist church in Grapevine that put on a "Journey to Bethlehem" production. Honestly it was SO amazing and really made Christmas feel real. We were lead through the forest with torches by a Jewish family that had a family flag they carried to be identified by. We were stopped many times by Roman guards and we had to show them our "passports" so we wouldn't be thrown in jail. The boys thought it was so cool. There were live animals all along our journey as we met the three wise men, the shepherds and other Jews on their travels to Bethlehem. We passed through a small scale version of Bethlehem with different merchants and animals. Then we ended at the stable with Mary and Joseph. It was really spiritual as everyone broke out into song as sand the words "Oh come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord". All I can say is this was such an incredible experience for the kids and helped them understand the story of the first Christmas. I am so glad we went and I just love this time of year!

Happy Snow Ball Fighting!

Non-Crappy Starring You! eCards on JibJab

Grateful Sunday-The Fridge

This Sunday I am grateful for people who keep themselves worthy to receive promptings from the Holy Ghost and who are obedient enough to follow through with those promptings. I am also grateful that the Lord knows us personally and hears and answers our prayers.
Well, as many of you know our fridge went out while we were in AZ. So this week was a hard one. We spent a couple of days trying to figure out whether or not we could afford to fix it and what we would do if we had to buy another one. I mean being students for 8 years doesn't pay that well :) So we really were in a tough situation. At night we would buy a small gallon of milk and let it sit outside at night (thank goodness for the cold nights) so the kids could at least have milk in the morning. We were creative for our meals and each day we were really unsure how to solve this dilemma. It was Wednesday midday and I was in tears (again). Dave and I were sorting through options and I heard the phone ring... "Hello Mrs Farnsworth. This is Chuck from Best Buy in Lewisville. We have a refrigerator that is needing to be delivered to your home and need to schedule a time for delivery". He probably thought I was crazy as I sobbed on the phone and asked who the anonymous fridge sender was. I still am unsure who was willing that day to send our family a fridge, but I am grateful. We may have found another option and worked it out on our own, but the Lord blessed us through someone else that day. We were certainly blessed with more than a working fridge this week, we were blessed with an increased testimony that the Lord hears and answers our prayers and in fact knows each of us personally and most of all that He loves us.