It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

It was 29 Christmases ago that we had our

First Christmas as the Brockbank Family.
Over the years we have had many different kinds of celebrations
from just the two of us in Seattle to
huge family gatherings at my mom's home.

We have enjoyed every Christmas
especially each time we added a new child to our family.
For seven years we had Christmas
with our six children.

Then there were three years with Ben or Bry or both on missions.
Last year we were all together again
for the first Christmas in four years.
We repeated that again this year!
Our family is growing and changing and
we are thrilled with those changes.
Next Christmas we don't know where Ben & Alyse will be
and Brandon will be in the mission field.
So 2009 was the end of an era ~
our last Christmas with just our six children.
It was wonderful and we enjoyed every minute of it.
We reviewed the past 24 Christmases and laughed and mom cried.
We shared lots and lots of love (and some teasing.)
But most of all we rejoiced in our Savior and his Birth!