Obviously, Abigail and Sydney are not old enough to understand Christmas, but Rebekah and I are enjoying the season with them. These pictures are a result of Rebekah and me trying to capture the girls' smiles as they sport one of their Christmas outfits. The smiling thing is going to have to come, again, when they understand what smiling is and can perform on cue. "Catching" both girls in the act right now may be impossible; this will happen in time. I keep trying to tell myself to not look forward to tomorrow/the future, but to enjoy the girls as they are today. Example: Michael and Heather Blankenship had their twin boys, Ben and Drew, who are 7 weeks old at church today--everyone is looking good--but I was thinking that I don't really remember those days when the girls were less than 5 pounds and slept most of the time. Yet I see Drew Blackston, son of Stacy and Andy, today and look forward to seeing what our girls will look like or what they will be interested in at 2 1/2 years old. After a three-day, out of town trip this past week, I was glad to be home and discovered that my daughters had grown! Not in ways that can be explained, but their personalities and mannerisms were just more grown up! I am glad that Rebekah was and will be with them every step of the way, so that we as parents will miss as little as possible.