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christmas, 2k15!

12/26/2015

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hey, friends!  
i hope you had a warm christmas with those dearest to you.  maybe with good food and funny games and thoughtful gestures and a lot of togetherness.  those are always the things i love about christmas most.  it's usually just a day of a lot of warmth and rest, i think.  i know not everyone has a christmas like that, and for some people christmas might actually be a time of pain... over loved ones lost or divorce or other hard family things and relationships or financial struggles.  the beautiful thing about whichever kind of christmas we had, even if there was hurt there too, it doesn't change the hope that is behind christmas, the hope that all of advent (which means 'coming') has been building up to.. the strangest, most wonderful occurrence: God in the form of a baby, a vulnerable infant dependent on His parents, in a totally human condition, coming to earth to save us and teach us a new way of living.  it is so odd and so extraordinary.  a story wrapped in so much peace and kindness and gentleness and wonder and hope.  like mary, the mother of God, let us continue to "treasure up all these things and ponder them in our hearts" (luke 2:19).
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our christmas morning is always my favorite!  it's just the five of us, and everyone's in a good mood (which is rare for all five to be that way in the morning haha... let's just say not all of us are morning people ;)) and we just take it slow, open presents from one another, have coffee, eat the same breakfast every christmas, and later make an appetizer to bring to grandma's.  it's just nice!
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^ elf jammies (: and dressember, day 25!  which... sorry i've been so stinkin bad at updating on here!  i've been consistent on insta but not here, so sorry! ^
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^^ grandma's tree! ^
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if there's one thing ya need to know about us speichs, it's that we're foodies... every last one of us!  which is something i appreciate for REAL (;  the food options were overwhelming in the very best way, hah!
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^ i love my grandpa.  so much!  there's no one like him!
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^ i thoroughly appreciate my family's enthusiasm for coloring.  
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here we are! all 20!
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^ah, man!  the camera fell again! (;
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"the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our LORD and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever." 
revelation 11:15
amen & amen!
​(^^world's greatest christmas card award goes to the schierkolk fam... am i right or am i right?!)

christmas last year HERE, the year before HERE, the year before HERE, the year before HERE, and the year before HERE. (haha, i've been bloggin for a long time!  actually christmas 2010 marks my very first blog post ever, so... cool little blog anniversary ;))
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