Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Sharing Christmas Festivities

This year Ryan and I were very intentional about sharing Christmas with our international friends. Since Christmas really is all about Jesus, then I can't think of a better way to celebrate than sharing Jesus with our friends who don't know him. God has blessed us with some really great friends this year.

We took our Turkish friend, Deniz, with us to drive through Interlochen (a fancy neighborhood who is known for their lights) and look at Christmas lights. We ate Christmas cookies and drank hot cocoa as we drove. It happended to be 75 degrees that evening (how wrong is that!), so Owen loved hanging out the window of the car pointing at all of the inflatables.
We invited our Chinese friends Kevin, Lynn and Irene over for dinner one night and we decorated Christmas cookies.

We also took them with us to the Christmas Family Night at our church. Owen and Irene had a blast!



Owen loved the Christmas characters from a distance bus was terrified when he got too close to Rudolph. In the picture, Ryan is cracking up because Owen just yelled out "NOOOOOOO" for everyone to hear.

1 comment:

Heather said...

Too bad you didn't get one with the Grinch! That was Cody!! :) I didn't know you had a blog! I can't wait to read more updates of Owen!! :)