Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry CHRISTmas

We flew in late last night from a week in Seattle - we had such a fun time with family up there. It was cold and snowed every day we were there. I will blog about that when I finish with working these 3 nights in a row.

Today was our first Christmas with just the 3 of us. We have always been with extended family for the holidays and we both love to be with family so much. But I think today was a very special Christmas because we just had us. It was a quiet day - all 3 of us haven't been feeling too good - but it was very meaningful. We were able to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. We are so thankful that we have each other and a sweet baby boy. It was a little different being so far away from friends and family that we love, but we both said at different times earlier today that there is no place either one of us would rather be than here with each other. We had originally wanted to volunteer to serve dinner at a homeless shelter, but that didn't work out for today - we hope to do that in the near future.

We made a birthday cake for Jesus and we sang to Him and blew out the candles. This was the most special part of our entire day. We want to always remember His coming to earth as a baby boy to be "GOD WITH US". We also want to teach Trey the true meaning of Christmas - that Jesus came to give us new life.

We are going to open our own gifts and do our stockings on Sunday, and I will post pictures when I have time.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That was very specail and as I read it, I knew that you had written it from your heart. You have a beautiful family. You love each other and we love you.

Unknown said...

I am glad your Christmas was so merry : ). Happy New Year, Joy!