Fun Times At Christmas

Wow! I have so much to post! I feel like I have such little time to update the blog, and when I do I have days and days worth of updates! Well, I will just jump right in and start with Christmas Eve. Zach started his vacation on this day and doesn't have to go back until a week from Monday! Praise the Lord! We had a busy day of baking cookies, making buckeyes and preparing a big meal. We had great fun, though! Ethan cut out the sugar cookies with cookie cutters. I frosted them and he sprinkled them with sprinkles. Let's just say, very memorable! That night, we opened up our stockings from mom, which really got everyone excited for opening presents the next morning. Christmas day, I cooked a big breakfast, and when Oma arrived, we sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and the opened presents! Needless to say, we had lots of fun! Ethan really got into it this year, but Ayden at 14 months of age liked ripping the paper and chewing on everything. Among other things, Ethan got a new bike from mommy and daddy, and new nascars from Oma. Oma went all out and got Ethan and Zach a round of golf at a local country club. It will be too funny watching my four year old on the golf course. If you know Ethan, he loves golf and CANNOT wait to go. In fact he told his daddy today that it was the PERFECT day to go golfing. Our wonderful friends, the Piatt family, came over for lunch and spent the rest of the day with us! We had such a good time. Our children love to play with each other so you can imagine how much fun the kids had! We got to share some wonderful fellowship with them! We ended the evening at my mother's house where we all shared Christmas dinner together. We are so thankful for such a wonderful day. I must pause here and say that although, we had lots of fun, food and presents, we always kept the true reason for Christmas in the forefront of our minds. Christmas is Christ Jesus' Birthday and without His coming to this earth to die on the cross for our sins Christmas would mean nothing. Unfortunately, Christmas has been so commercialized, but the Lang family still celebrates the true meaning of Christmas, our Saviors birthday! We love you Jesus and thank you for coming to this earth for us! You love us so much!

Yesterday was spent relaxing and the boys played with all their new toys. I even got to take a nap! Today was busy with lots of running around and one very memorable event! Ayden got his first haircut today! It was very difficult for me to give in but it was time. People were starting to think he was a girl. He had these pretty little curls and he is such a pretty little baby, I can understand the confusion. He did really well! My hair dresser had Ethan sit with Ayden in the chair which really worked out nice. I think it helped to have Ethan sitting with him. Ayden played with my chap stick while Mommy, daddy and Ethan talked to him. He did great! So gone our the beautiful curls and instead you see a handsome little boy. He is too cute with his hair cut!

Here are the curls before the haircut!

This is the front view before the haircut!

During the haircut with his big brother right next to him!

No more curls!

Big boy haircut from the front!

Thanks for sharing in our memories! We make lots of them, and we love to share them with you!

Love,

The Lang Family

We're Home!

Thank you so much for your prayers! It was quite the eventful trip, but we made it home safely. Our original intent for going to Ohio was to help my grandmother move to her new apartment. We did help with this task, but there was a major kink thrown into the whole equation. My grandmother has diverticulitis (sp?) which is a disease that can cause one to spontaneously hemorrhage from the rectum. Sounds pleasant doesn't it? Well, it decided to flair up on the first day of the move. To make a long story short, my grandmother is doing well after several blood transfusions, days in the hospital, and she almost had to have surgery. She is now recovering at her new apartment. Please continue to pray for her, and that she doesn't have another "episode". Much of my time and my mother's time was spent at the hospital so the move did not go as quickly and efficiently as we had hoped. In fact, my mother is still in Ohio trying to wrap things up and making sure my grandmother is going to be ok! When we realized that everything was going to take so much longer than expected, I called my wonderful husband and begged him to come get us. So Zach jumped in the car and came to get us! He drove straight through to come rescue us! He truly is my "knight in shining armor"! The drive home was fun. The boys were antsy in the car so we made a few extra stops. One of the stops was at the Corvette museum. My guys truly had fun at that one and I did too. Than we stopped in Brentwood, TN (home of Dave Ramsey) for lunch. My hubby got the bright idea to drive around town to try to find "Financial Peace Plaza", Dave Ramsey's office! If you can believe it, we actually found it! We were so excited as we walked into the lobby of his building! When you walk into the lobby, you can see his radio room and they actually have seats outside the soundproof room so you can watch him do his broadcast! The best of all was that he was actually doing a live show at that time, and we got to witness it! He waved at us too! For those of you who know that we are "Financial Peace" coordinators, you know what a thrill that was for us! Needless to say, we were pumped. We made it safely home, and I have never been so happy to be home! Look below to see some recent picks of the boys.

Ayden with his comfy pillow for the car ride!

Ethan with his comfy pillow!

My angels in front of our tree!

Look how tall Ethan is. That's a 6 foot tree!

My Baby!

I hope you enjoyed stopping by to catch up with us! There's always something going on with our very busy family!