Madeline's First Christmas(es)!

Maddie and Cousin J.P!
We love Nana!

Cousin Taylor and Madeline with matching knit caps!

(Courtesy of Grandma Hamann)

Opening presents Christmas morning

Maddies' favorite gift ever...her doll. (She thinks it's real.)

We had such a fun time celebrating our four different Christmases! What a joy to have her in our lives. I feel like Christmas this year struck me in such a different way than those before. I look at my daughter and I'm so overwhelmed by love for her...by curiousity about what kind of young woman she will become...by fear of what this world could do to her. I cannot even imagine what Mary must have felt looking down at her son...her perfect Son...and knowing that He would become a Saviour to all mankind. I cannot even fathom that....