A Christmas Parade

Last weekend we had the pleasure of seeing our friends Rachel and Aaron, who are living in China and are back in the United States for Christmas.  We hadn't seen them since their daughter was first born (I had the honor of doing her newborn photos) and she is now 18 months old!  So it was really special to be able to spend time with them.

They brought their daughter and two little nieces (who were 5 and 3 years old) and joined us at the Woodland Christmas Parade.  Here's all the kids lined up in a row waiting for the parade to start!

Molly got to share her seat for a while with little Hannah, which she was pretty excited about. 

 

 The kids LOVED watching the parade and sucking on all the candy canes that got thrown out to the crowd.

The parade was SO long, so we snuck out before it finished and went out for lunch together.  Unfortunately, with SIX kids that were 5-years old and younger, we weren't able to have the best visit (as you can imagine).  But it was still nice to spend some time with their wonderful family and they will continue to be in our prayers as they head back to China!