My parents came with us to get our Christmas tree last week
at my dads cousins Christmas tree farm in Clovis.
It was oh so much fun getting trees together (big ones for half the price).
It's the little things that I am doing now
that I really missed out on living so far away.
Like watching my brother chase my kids around the trees,
my dad and Jake tying the trees to the tops of the cars together,
my mom and I picking out the trees we wanted
after the men said, "pick your tree honey,"
Caleb touching all the trees, not sure what's going on
but feeling the excitement,
just being with my family while doing this simple and classic tradition was special.
The following night we decorated the tree with just our little family while enjoying homemade chili and honey cornbread for dinner, followed by sugar cookies, hot cocoa and Christmas music.
Can't get better than that!
We got the kids their own little tree for upstairs that is so darling.
They decorated it all by themselves, well Jonathon put on the ornaments and Caleb took them off :)
Every night before bed they love to sit by it and look at it shining in the dark by their bedrooms.
Caleb loves all the lights! Yay for Christmas time.
Tonight we listened to the First Presidency Christmas message from our church and it really touched me,
about how Christmas shouldn't be "spent" but "kept"... all year long.
All too often we get caught up in trying to make Christmas perfect:
perfect gifts, parties, decorations, activities, etc. and we lose sight of what it's all about.
Christmas is about love and giving, about people not things.
I can't wait to read the stories President Monson reads at Christmas,
the Christmas story in Luke, A Christmas Carol and a new one I have never heard of, The Mansion by Henry Van Dyke.
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