The Shrum Family Adventures: Happy 2010!!!!!!!

Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy 2010!!!!!!!

Happy New Year Everyone! Can you believe it is 2010 already! I just hope this year is better then last year!!!!

I am finally getting the first chance to post some Christmas pictures! So here is a look into our Christmas in pictures.

These are a few pictures we took the Sunday before Christmas. All dressed up and ready for Church.

Some of these pictures are really washed out from the sun...

Here are some of our decorations............ Inside...........

The kids decorated the tree all by themselves . I usually go with a theme or certain colors but here is their version. This was the first year we have had bows on the tree.

The decorations outside. The boys w/ Karlton's help , decorated the outside.

We did a lot of baking. Here are a couple of the treats we made. These are Chocolate Mint Macadamia cookies.

The kids made Gingerbread Men before Santa came on Christmas Eve.

Before Santa came.....................

and after..............

The kids woke us up at 4:15 to let us know Santa had come. Yippy ;0)......... So I did not get to many pictures of them with their toys needless to say. Karlton did film it... I hope! They go through stuff so fast its incredible!

One quick shot after they ripped through all their presents.

I have more Christmas pictures...... but that will have to wait until another post!

3 comments:

Carla said...: What a handsome family! Love the dresses on the girls and the boys look so grown-up.
Carla; January 1, 2010 at 11:12 AM
Vanessa said...: Your family is so beautiful!!! Praying your New Year is a wonderfully blessed one!; January 1, 2010 at 12:18 PM
Mama Bear said...: did you say 4:15 am???? holy moly girl. We have a rule in our house NOT before 6:00 am!!!! What a fun time!; January 11, 2010 at 12:34 AM

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Verses that really spoke to me and helped me get through our adoptions.

(John 14:18) " I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you."

(Isaiah 43:5-6) "Do not be afraid, for I am with you,
I will bring your children from the west. Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth."

(Proverbs 25:25) "As cold water is to a thirsty soul : so is good
news from a far country."

(Matthew 6:25-34) The do not worry chapter.
This is the chapter that told me we would adopt again and the
baby girl woud be named Lily (Lilee). "The lilies of the field".
This is a great reminder of why we should not worry, God will take care of his people!

(Psalms 82: 3-4) "Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Resue the weak and neady; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."

(Psalms 68: 5) "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling."

(Deuteronomy 10:18) " He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow and loves the alien, giving them food and clothing."

(Philippians 4:13) "I can do all things through him who gives me strength."

(Philippians 4:6-7) " Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present
your request to God. And the peace of God,which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

(Romans 8:28) " And we know that all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

(James 1:27) "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after the orphans and widows in their destress, and to keep oneself from being polluted from by the world."