Christmas is here!

Well at least in our home it is!

I love Christmas time. I love the meaning, and the God sent His son to this earth so that He might save us.  What a wonderful gift of life.  I hope that this season brings joy to every person.  I'm really looking forward to really teaching Elijah the meaning of Christmas this year and starting some of our own little family traditions.  Not sure what they all will be, but I will be sharing them as they come up!

We went last Friday and got our Christmas Tree. A REAL tree.  I don't/won't do fakes.  I love the smell of a fresh tree in the home and every year it gets to look a bit different.  I'm picky about the type of tree, it has to be huge, usually 8-10ft tall and nice and fat, so it takes up like half the room. OK not literally half the room, but in a small room it sometimes feels that way. We hit the jackpot this year.  Greg just keeps saying over and over, that is a big tree. He must forget we always have had a big tree.(he's getting old)

Elijah really enjoyed taking the tree home with us, and then he loved to help us put all the ornaments on.  He didn't really put too many on, he more just handed them all to daddy, and said thank you every time he gave one away to place on the tree.  What a sweet boy.  He also loved the pine cones, you know those wonderful cinnamon smelling ones.  He just wanted to keep holding them and smelling them, and then he would bring them around to us and put them in our face so we could smell them as well. 

Athaiah just watched and played a little with some of the garland.  When we lit up the tree her little girl eyes lit up too.  She loves to just sit and stare at it.  It is fun to see Christmas decorating through the eyes of a child.

After the children went to sleep, we decorated the rest of the house with little things here and there.


When Elijah woke up the next morning, he kept saying wow, and whoa every time he found something new or shinny in another spot.  I again love seeing Christmas through his eyes and just the wonder of it all.  And this is just the decorating part!

We still have to put lights on the outside of the house, maybe that will get done this weekend.  Who knows, we are kind of party poopers and have yet to put lights on the outside of our house.  We have had them since we moved it, just have never gotten around to putting them up!