Hello Blog Friends!!
I feel like I have been pretty good about posting at least once a month (with the monthly updates), but I shouldn't just wait until the month is up to post! Sorry it hasn't been more frequent.
So, I feel I should just post now, since it's Christmas time.
We have been enjoying celebrating Gambo's First American Christmas. Our First Christmas as a family of three! So far, we've watched a Christmas parade… in the freezing cold rain.
Gambo really loved watching all the floats.
And he was enthralled by the marching bands.
Afterwards, we went to pick out a Christmas tree
Then we got to decorate it. Gambo put the first ornament on the tree.
Which happened to be this:
For the rest of the decorating, he wanted to help out, but he was too busy exploring
and turning ornament holders into pretend cups
One of things we enjoyed getting to put on our tree this year were multicolored paper-bead garlands that we bought in Uganda. We strung them all around, so that our tree is now a reminder of Uganda.
We also have a few ornaments that help Gambo feel that Christmas is not all about "whiteness," if you know what I mean.
Then Gambo got to help put the star on the tree.
Our tree was complete:
Most importantly, we've been going over the Christmas Story, the true meaning behind why we celebrate Christmas… Jesus Christ coming to earth, being born in a manger, to bring salvation to mankind by living a perfect sinless life and then dying on the cross for all our sins, only to be raised to life again to reign as King.
He has his own nativity set he can play with.
Praise: We got an amazing early Christmas present last week… we have a Court Date scheduled for the finalization of Gambo's adoption!!!
We will be going to court in January, and then Gambo will officially take on our last name and become a US Citizen! What a wonderful day it will be.
Finally, I am reminded this season of the uniqueness and confounding reality of Jesus being born in a manger… He a King, fit to be born in a palace, yet born among dirt, stinky animals, and not even having a bed to sleep in. Why? So that He could be the kind of King that could identify with us. He is not one who was shielded from life, who experienced ease and comfort here on earth, so that when we think of him, we lament that "He doesn't know what it is like for us." No. He knows. He knows so much more than we can imagine. I also think of Gambo's humbling circumstances, how he started out in this world. Jesus knows what it was like for him. Jesus has been through it. How awesome to have a Savior who knows us and knows all the difficulties that we are facing and will face in life!
Merry Christmas!!!
I feel like I have been pretty good about posting at least once a month (with the monthly updates), but I shouldn't just wait until the month is up to post! Sorry it hasn't been more frequent.
So, I feel I should just post now, since it's Christmas time.
We have been enjoying celebrating Gambo's First American Christmas. Our First Christmas as a family of three! So far, we've watched a Christmas parade… in the freezing cold rain.
Gambo really loved watching all the floats.
And he was enthralled by the marching bands.
Afterwards, we went to pick out a Christmas tree
Then we got to decorate it. Gambo put the first ornament on the tree.
Which happened to be this:
For the rest of the decorating, he wanted to help out, but he was too busy exploring
and turning ornament holders into pretend cups
One of things we enjoyed getting to put on our tree this year were multicolored paper-bead garlands that we bought in Uganda. We strung them all around, so that our tree is now a reminder of Uganda.
We also have a few ornaments that help Gambo feel that Christmas is not all about "whiteness," if you know what I mean.
Then Gambo got to help put the star on the tree.
Our tree was complete:
Most importantly, we've been going over the Christmas Story, the true meaning behind why we celebrate Christmas… Jesus Christ coming to earth, being born in a manger, to bring salvation to mankind by living a perfect sinless life and then dying on the cross for all our sins, only to be raised to life again to reign as King.
He has his own nativity set he can play with.
Praise: We got an amazing early Christmas present last week… we have a Court Date scheduled for the finalization of Gambo's adoption!!!
We will be going to court in January, and then Gambo will officially take on our last name and become a US Citizen! What a wonderful day it will be.
Finally, I am reminded this season of the uniqueness and confounding reality of Jesus being born in a manger… He a King, fit to be born in a palace, yet born among dirt, stinky animals, and not even having a bed to sleep in. Why? So that He could be the kind of King that could identify with us. He is not one who was shielded from life, who experienced ease and comfort here on earth, so that when we think of him, we lament that "He doesn't know what it is like for us." No. He knows. He knows so much more than we can imagine. I also think of Gambo's humbling circumstances, how he started out in this world. Jesus knows what it was like for him. Jesus has been through it. How awesome to have a Savior who knows us and knows all the difficulties that we are facing and will face in life!
Have a wonderful, Christ-filled, Merry Christmas!
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