Merry Christmas!

I realized today that it's already Wednesday and Christmas is, literally, "just around the corner"! Last year we spent most of December with wonderful supporter friends, visiting various spots on the east coast during their family vacation. This year we are experiencing our first solo Soboll Christmas, just me, Eddy and Ben. While we are excited for this special time, we have come to realize that we enjoy spending time WITH people... not that we don't love having time as a family, we just especially appreciate socializing with those people we love... particularly during the holidays. And this has become ever so clear to us when we are away from family, in any capacity, but especially when on "the field". So, we're trying to rustle up some plans, maybe drop in on a family for Christmas eve and then visit another on Christmas morning, after the initial present-opening-frenzy has ended... but we'll see...
Ben is coming up on 10 weeks! We can't beleive how fast time is going by or by how BIG he is getting... We had his 2 month check last week and he topped off the scale at 14.5#... good gracious! He is an absolute joy and we couldn't imagine life without him... how fast our perspectives change!

Eddy and I are still helping out at the church and trying to plan for the future. We are going to be traveling to Brazil in the middle of January to visit family and supporters, and introduce Benjamin! And of course, the Land-of-Sand is still very much on our hearts and in our minds. Our visas expire in April, so either way, one or all of us will be heading back then... We would delay moving if things got a little bit too heated politically or if we felt Ben wasn't up to it. We'll keep you all posted!We hope and pray that you are enjoying time with family the season and that you are reminded yet again of the whole reason for this holiday- the birth of our Savior and Lord, Jesus!
Photos: One of our family Christmas Photos... Ben around 6 weeks, while on the road to MT for Thanksgiving- Time with Daddy in the morning!... Bath time on the road- the sink will work- he looks excited about it... Burping time during a feeding- I'm a naive new mom, but I'm guessing he's tired... A late night feeding in front of our tree...