Happy New Year!!!

First we wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year!! We pray that God will truly bless 2010 and any resolutions you may make be fulfilled!! Looking back on the months gone by, as a new year starts and an old one ends, we look back on what has brought us joy, and we think of our loved ones and our friends. Remembering all the happy times and how they changed our lives, we reflect upon who really counts, as the bright new year arrives. And when we ponder those who do, we immediately think of you. Thanks for being one of the reasons we'll have a Happy New Year!

We were excited to have our annual bon fire to ring in the New Year!!!

We got together with several of our close friends

and burned all of our Christmas trees.

We had such a great time roasting marshmellows, listening to music, and fellowshiping together!

What a great way to ring in the New Year!!!!

Merry Christmas from The Pike Family

I'm not sure how many pictures I can get on one post but wanted to share our Christmas with everyone!! After a very late night we attempted to sleep in Christmas morning but it didn't go as planned and we were up about 8:30am!!

Crazy...I know, but such a cute face to wake up to!!

Anyway's, as always we took our traditional family picture around the tree first thing with all the presents before we opened them

and then well, the rest is history!!

"All these for me?!?!"

Gonna be a rockstar!!!

Gifts from Grandaddy Howell

Can't forget about Yoda!

A toolbelt like daddy's!! (kind-of!)

A Gift from Grandpa Jon

A Gift from Nana

Who do you think you are...Santa?

Cuteness!!

Christmas dinner!

Gonna be Mommy's piano player one day!!

He takes this gift thing way serious!!!

"Some assembly required!!"

Woohoo...all done!!

I think he approves!!

Jonathan's gift to Mimi & Opa!

Testing out the "snuggie"

Tuckered out!!!

Trying the Wii out for the first time!!

Go Mimi...multi-tasker you!!!

I just love their faces (lip biting and all!!)

Chillin'!!

The only time we will ever "hit" each other! Boxing rocks...and hurts!!!! LOL

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

It's Christmas Time!!!!

Well, as you can see I haven't written since Thanksgiving because...well...December is the craziest month for The Pike Family!!! From Cantata practices, weekend sings, Christmas shopping (and yes we were the crazy ones out at 5am the day after Thanksgiving), work, Christmas parties, wrapping presents, decorating

picking out trees,

decorating trees,

and holiday baking, to Christmas Cantata's

(with special guest Babbie Mason!),

celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior & spending time with the ones we love!! Even though we were beyond busy we enjoyed being together as a family!!
Jonathan has continued to grow leaps and bounds! He is 15 months old now and has a vocabulary of about a 2 year old!! We were putting up decorations one day and I was casually telling him about Santa (to what a 15 month old can understand)...well about an hour later when I was changing him he pointed to a Santa in his room and said "tanta"!! And so, of course, we had to go get our picture taken with "tanta"!

Every year our church has a candle light service at 11:00 pm Christmas Eve that our family attends as a tradition! And every year our pastor baptizes on Christmas morning (12:00am) which is awesome!! This year he had the opportunity to baptize over 50 people!! What a testimony and memory to be able to be baptized on Christmas morning!! That is something you will never forget! =) We also take the opportunity to get a family picture around our church's huge tree on Christmas morning (12:00am)!!!

Merry Christmas from "The Pike Family"

Mom & Dad with Jonathan

Our best friends Chris & Courtney