Christmas at the motel

Thanks to all our family for coming and joining us at the motel this year. We missed you Shane ,Jody, Erin and Kate. Sorry you could not make it but we understand that it just doesn't work out sometimes!!  This has been our tenth year --missing only one year due to a snow storm!!!As our family grows from year to year we know that this will happen more often that some of you can't make it every year and we understand that. Thanks to our children and spouses,ten grandchildren and some have spouses  and great grandchildren for the love and concern you have shown us in this past years. We pray we can do this a few more years yet the Lord willing. Thanks for the emails, blogs and pictures you send so we can keep up to date on the growing family. This means so much to us. Last of all we praise God for the wonderful Christian  family He has blest us with and praying it can continue on down from generation to generation. We love you all. Dad and Mom/ grandpa and grandma/and great grandpa and grandma Vander Woude.