Family Picture 09

Hey Everybody! I absolutely love Christmas cards... preferably, the ones with family pictures on the front. I came home from school for the holidays and it was like gold, going through all of them that have been sent to us. We try to get out a Christmas card most years.. however they often come late. Apparently we like to wait, so that our 'Christmas card' is more special, becoming a, 'Happy New Year' card.. I mean, who wants to get caught in the pile of Christmas cards? haha it's a good theory. Anyhow, this year we got a good friend of mine, Kevin, to take our family picture. He's really talented in photography and has also been there to take pictures of just some fun times, proms, etc. So here are a few of the pictures! All are taken either in out in front of our home or in the backyard This whole post might be a spoiler, as this is the one you'll probably receive in the mail... Also.. this is one of my mom's favourites. It was quite impromptu.. I just jumped on Ali's back and Lydia came in! I love it too. So, there it is! I hope you're all having an amazing Christmas holiday.. I hate that we can't have one big Penner Christmas! Miss you all, Love, Emily (on behalf of the rest of the sub-Penner family!)

Something fun...

I found this picture on my mom's computer today. I thought I would include it on the blog. It made me smile...hope it does the same for YOU!! We sure miss being together with all of you! Love, Cherie

Thanksgiving in Fresno!

The Fresno Penner's continue to mulitply year after year. I think the only person we were missing was Jeremy because he is up at school at CBC for school. BUT, his girlfriend, Nicole, represented WELL on his behalf! Obviously she had tons of people to meet and she made us proud. Here is our Fresno crew! We sure missed ALL the other Penner's!

Harold and Lily LOVE to be with their grandkids! (Aubrey Rose is on the left, Christopher is on the right.) Andrea, Christoper and Jon Might be some new faces below....I wish this picture was not blurry! On the left is Nicole, Jeremy's girlfriend, in the middle is Becca (Luke's fiance...wedding is March 27th!) and we are all blessed to know Chelsey Marie! These two, at times, stole the show this Thanksgiving! Aubrey Rose and Christopher are 10 days apart. They LOVED being with each other. They followed each other around, played with each other, and constantly gave hugs to one another. It was soooo fun to watch them interact.

Christopher (on the right) is 10 days older than Aubrey Rose.They were so cute together. See what I mean they stole the show! This is Aubrey Rose showing her new dance move. This made us laugh. Last Christmas Jon sat in this chair and BROKE it! My dad finally fixed it and so we made sure Jon knew he was not allowed to sit in it again! Ha!Here is one table....starting from left...Uncle Mac and Janice, then Allie's parents, Darlene and Eric, Aaron and Christy, and then our wonderful friend Brooke (she is kind of adopted into our HP Penner family...my mom has been a mentor to her) On the left again...Andrea, Christopher and Jon, then the cute engaged couple, Luke and Becca and then, Andrea's sweet mom, Lynda is on the right The only new addition is this picture is Jadon. He just turned 1 year old last month! On the left is Neil and Charity, then Lily, on the right is David, Jadon and Arris From bottom left...Aubrey Rose (with her "cheeeeeeese" smile), Margie, Blake, Chelsey, Nicole, my dad in the back, then Jesse and Allie This is all of us hanging out, singing some worship songs, while the little kiddos entertained us with their dance moves.Some more of the circle Aubrey Rose and Christopher dancing to the Jesus songs we were singing The Harold Penner clan The 3 little ones...Aubrey Rose, Jadon and Christopher Jadon, Charity and Arris Aunt Lily, Charity and Jadon All of us girls hanging out...of and Jon's shoes since he took the picture laying down! Oh, and hopefully you made it through to the bottom of this post! Complete sidenote, not Thanksgiving at all, but definitely family related...I just wanted to keep everyone in the loop about Blake, Aubrey Rose and myself. It has already been a month or so since we found out, but at our 13 week ultrasound appointment the doctors found no heartbeat for our Baby #2. God's plans are WAY bigger and BETTER than we could ever create for ourselves. He knows what is best for all of us. The three of us are doing wonderfully and praise the Lord for having his hand upon us each step of the way. Just wanted to keep you guys in the loop of some of the Fresno happenings!

Love, Cherie and the rest of the Fresno crew!

Pictures of Sophia