The Christmas Season

Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year. I love the hope it brings and the opportunity to remember our Savior who came to save the world. We make an effort every year to celebrate Christmas all season long. Anything we can do make the holidays special and put the focus on Christ we try to do it. We have decorated, baked, watched movies, played games, and everything in between.  This year has been lots of fun so far. Here is what we have been up to...

Right after Thanksgiving we we got our Christmas tree.  Aaron was in Prospect's Christmas drama again this year portraying Christ, so we wanted to get a tree early knowing that if we didn't we wouldn't have time until mid-December.  So we got a tree, some poinsettias, and a few extra decorations and got our house decked out early for the season.  Levi loved decorating this year, and besides the ornaments on the tree, most of the house decorations have somehow made their way to his room.

Levi had fun decorating the tree, and most of the ornaments all ended up in the same spot.

To continue or celebrating we went out to the square to participate in the lighting of the courthouse.  The square is beautiful this time of year with all the lights and decorations.  The lighting was lots of fun.  We saw many friends and heard some great music to get us in the holiday spirit.  That weekend we went to the Christmas Parade on the square.  It was lots of fun and Aunt Lou even came with us!  Levi's favorite part were all the horses at the end.  

 My favorite part of the Christmas season so far was the dedication of Naomi.  Aaron & I take our role as parents very seriously, and dedicating our children to the Lord is a big deal.  We feel so blessed to have been given Naomi and she is such a special part of our family.  She has challenged us and brought us so much joy in her first year.  We are so excited to watch her grow and see how the Lord is going to use her.  The dedication was so wonderful and I'm hoping to blog about it in a separate post so be on the look out for it.

 Just this past Sunday we attended our church's Happy Birthday Jesus Party!  We got to do a craft and make our own special birthday cake to bring home.  We got cupcakes and sang Happy Birthday for the celebration!  It was lots of fun.  Then we got to watch the kids put on the nativity story in a play.  It was chaotic, but super cute.  We ended the night with a few Christmas carols.  After the party we headed over to a neighboring church to watch a live nativity.  It was really fun and the kids loved all the real animals in the show.

We hope you have been enjoying the season as much as we have.  We hope as you celebrate this week with family and friends that the love of Christ fills your hearts and your homes.

Merry Christmas!