China Love: Forever Home Christmas 2012

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Forever Home Christmas 2012

A Christmas gift from far away. Thanks Catherine!

Dad gets a self-stirring mug from Shawna and Elise. Pretty cool, huh?!

Camilla gets some new toys, of which she is scared of at first :0

No one gets left out at Christmas, not even the dog! He's a member of the family too, right Tiny?!

Zoe has now learned the art of ripping open gifts!

Emma, however, has a more delicate touch to opening gifts.

Mollie says she likes all these musical toys!

The whole gang on Christmas morning opening gifts!

Can't forget about the stockings, right Sylvia?!

A large gift from mom and dad for all the younger Forever Home girls! And boy have they enjoyed it!

Holly thinks Christmas ought to come every week! I'm so glad it doesn't though!

Debbie enjoys unwrapping gifts too!

2 comments:

UnknownDecember 30, 2012 at 12:49 AM
Yay! I am so glad the gifts made it in time :) Merry Christmas to everyone at the Forever Home! Love to all!!!
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AnonymousJanuary 3, 2013 at 1:14 AM
I can't tell you how thrilled Lilly and the rest of us were to see sweet Emma in her monkey shirt!! It's funny seeing the sleeves rolled up, because I honestly thought about shortening them before I sent it!! My son can never wear long sleeves with out some alterations. Just something about that designer gene that they have.
I am so glad that all of you had a great Christmas! Not a minute seems to go by that I am not thinking about that sweet little face! I just keep praying for things to change, for Gods direction. It is hard but for now all I can do is pray.
Hugs to all those sweeties!!
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