Christmas Eve Pics

Here are a few pictures we took this week. Sunday was our 23rd anniversary. We went to church, then took the kids with us (first time ever on our anniversary) to dinner at our friend, Choi's, Korean Restaurant. This picture was taken than morning by our family photographer, Heather van Hoven! She has taken it for us for the past few years, so Theron has deemed her our official photographer. Thanks, Heather. The check is in the mail!! :)

Our family tradition is to go to Cracker Barrel on Christmas Eve morning. It is something my family did since I was a teenager. Theron and I liked that tradition, so have made it our own.

Here we are getting ready to chow down!

The waitress took this one, but cut Sam off, so that's why there are two of these.

We took these last night at church before the service. I was going to take more after the service, but we found out Johnny wasn't doing well, and didn't feel like taking any more pictures. Sorry, Sam, I'll get more of you this week with my new camera!!

Mary & Chrissy

Chrissy, Mary, & Nancy




Theron & Nancy

Here we are again!

Mary & Heather playing the prelude

TJ playing around on the piano at church

On Christmas Eve, the kids open gifts from the kids' aunts and uncles AND their Christmas Jammies from Theron & me.
TJ with his gift from Aunt Jo and Uncle Dave

Mary & Chrissy with some of their gifts

Sam and Theron with some of their gifts, isn't he so cute?

Darlene Called Yah!

Johnny is steadily improving. His temperature is down and his blood pressure is holding steady with the help of medications. He still can't have visitors, but is doing so much better. Pastor Reid went to see them last night and took a big list of signatures from people at church last night who said they would be praying for Johnny. Darlene showed it to the doctor who was on duty at first last night when she came back on this morning. She saw that Johnny was not in the PICU. The doctor looked at all the names and said, "Well, I guess I can't discount that, can I?" Pretty awesome!! Johnny started turning around last night while we were at church. Darlene is so thankful for all those who are praying. I told her those lists don't even show everyone, because there were people all over the nation praying, too, who didn't get to sign the list!
We hope to get up to see him later today if he can have visitors, but if not, we'll just keep celebrating his turnaround. Thanks, again, for your prayers!

Praise the Lord

I just heard from Joey. He said that Johnny is on an upward spiral, and that the doctors are impressed!! I will update more when I hear. Thanks, again, for your prayers.

Johnny Update

Johnny is still in the hospital. He has stablilized, so they haven't had to put him into the ICU. Please continue to keep him in your prayers. They said there is some kind of infection in his body, so they are blanket bombing him with antibiotics. His blood pressure has come back up (it got really low). He is turning for the better now. I will keep you posted as I hear from Darlene. Keep praying!! We have a big God!!

Pray for Johnny

Hi, just a quick prayer request. Johnny has a fever of 101.1...anytime it goes over 101 they have to take him to the hospital. According to Joey, they are on their way now. I'll keep you posted. Thanks for your prayers.

Happy 23rd Anniversary

Theron and I were married on Saturday, December 21st, 1985. He chose that date, because our first date was on December 21st (1982). It is funny how time is....it seems like yesterday in a lot of ways. I don't feel much different than I did then, but know I've changed when I look at these pics. haha I love you, Theron, and am so grateful to have you as my husband. We've had a lot of fun, and I am looking forward to the future with you.

This is our wedding party.

Here we are in our receiving line. I am not sure what Theron and I were talking about, but my mom thought it was funny. She just loved Theron!

Theron feeding me a piece of cake. He was very nice and didn't smash it in my face or anything!


Here we are entering the hotel. We left Sarasota the next day to live in High Rolls, NM.

In the Mustang

Through a few unusual circumstances, Theron and I ended up taking TJ, Sam and Mary with us to church in the Mustang. The backseat was NOT meant for 3 people!! They were rather cramped all the way to church.

I love TJ's face in this one.