(2009) This year will always and forever be my favorite year. There was something tender about this year. It felt like we had a tiny piece of Bethlehem in our back yard. The kids totally enjoyed every bit of the making of the video. The animals brought so many laughs. Troy was convinced we'd all gone crazy, but in the end as he fought to get the borrowed donkey back into a truck, I wasn't necessarily disagreeing with him. Britt and Chris gathered all the costumes and sent them to Haiti. Troy wrote a simple song and Hope sang "glowy to God" over and over.
There is something about this that will always be deeply important to us all, in that less than a month after we put this together our lives were literally rocked as we watched and experienced our precious Haiti suffer the devastating effects of a giant earthquake. This sort of represents the end of that stage of our lives and our time in Haiti.
