We took SO many pictures at Christmas it has taken me a while to sort through and decide how best to post them! Christmas was wonderful this year. The kids were thoroughly spoiled with lots of gifts from Kev and I, his parents and other family members! We did lots of fun Christmas activities this year, we got our first live tree which was a lot of fun! The girls enjoyed picking it out and it was SO much prettier then a fake one! We did lots of baking together, attended a cookie exchange with friends, went to a HUGE light show with Uncle Jon and Aunt Lauren,got to see LIVE reindeer, attended a lovely Christmas Eve service at Kevs parents church, had a nice Christmas morning just the 5 of us and had a great gift exchange and breakfast with all Kevs family at his Grannys!
All of those things were wonderful and made Christmas so special. But what really made this Christmas special was watching the girls really began to understand the meaning of Christmas. As fun as Santa and presents are we always want to instill that Christ is the real meaning behind Christmas! We read the Christmas story at least a hundred times to them, at their request, and had countless conversations about Jesus coming as a baby, about him being Gods son, about how Mary and Joseph raised him, about how God gave Jesus as a sacrifice for our sins and about how Jesus ultimately died on the cross to save us! To watch your children begin to understand these truths means more then watching their excitement as they open ANY gift!
I feel every year my eyes are open even more to what Mary must have felt, holding her precious son, loving him to her very depth and yet knowing all a long that he was her savior! How it must have felt to watch her baby boy die on the cross an excruciating death to save sinners, including those who hung him their and spit in his face! I can't imagine what she must have felt as he grew in her womb knowing He was fully her son but fully her GOD! Wow!Praise the Lord and may we be reminded all year of his amazing love, sacrifice and grace!
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