M. Christmas

a Star

For two years in a row now Henry has played the role of baby Jesus in our church's telling of the Christmas story. And now you see why they keep calling him back year after year. He really makes a good one, and he gets lots of practice thanks to his big sister.

Hope you all have a very blessed day tomorrow as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Christ the Lord.

"Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."

Love,
The Dirks Fam

Henry as Edward Cullen

Merry Christmas from Edward.

the decorating duo

A few days ago Maggie and Sam decorated some fabulous graham cracker houses in substitution of the ever popular gingerbread type. Sam's mommy, Melissa put them together and brushed icing all over the tops and sides, Maggie and Sam had the fun task of making them extra delicious, yet aesthetically pleasing. While the Mommies stood on the sidelines coaching them to keep putting the treats on the houses and not into their mouths.Cinderella Maggie hard at work.
Nothing suspicious here...
They both kept at if for considerably longer than either Melissa or I could have imagined possible for two fidgety two year olds.

"Mary" Christmas

We talk a lot about what Christmas is about in our home and we read the story of Jesus' birth over and over again, as I'm sure many of you do to. Maggie loves this story and we are so glad that she does, because we love it to. We love that our great God took on the form of a helpless baby and lived the life we fail to live on our behalf. So, we'll probably continue to read it over and over again, make that a definitely. And, we pray that our children will grow to love it in ways they can't even understand yet. But for now we play pretend. Oh how we love to play pretend in our home. We've found that this has become one of Maggie's favorite games to play with Daddy when he gets home from work. At least once a night Tyler plays the role of Donkey and Maggie takes the Mary lead. Every now and then Maggie appoints Henry to the part of Joseph or a shepherd. He does a spectacular job. They both do really.

RUF Christmas Party

Last night we had our RUF Christmas party and it was a blast. We had great food, games, festive outfits, white elephant gifts and even birthday cake. Our students really are the best and so much fun to be around. One of our students made Jesus a birthday cake and we all sang happy birthday. Our students are so sweet to show our children that even cool "JWU students" celebrate our risen King's birth. They love our kids so well and have been such a blessing to us. I can't imagine a better group to celebrate the holidays with.

Henry sportin' a birthday hat for the par-tay.

Ready for a rockin' birthday/Christmas party!
Yum-yum
White elephant gifts.
More white elephant gifts.

Piano Concert