Blessings & Snapshots : Christmas 2014

"It's the most wonderful time of the year."

Christmas 2014 was a fun day spent at home opening homemade presents, small treasures, and practical things that were bought the weeks before and simply wrapped up to be put under the tree. Although it's a little different than when we were little, I still think it's magical with the Christmas tree lights sparkling like glistening water on all the wrapping and bows.

"Christmas Is" by Francesca Battistelli, one of my favorite Christmas songs this year, sums it up perfectly...."Christmas is music and family in town...Christmas is Snoopy and Charlie Brown...it's anticipating that snow's gonna fall..." "Christmas is paper and ribbons all over the floor..." "Christmas is rooftops covered in lights. It's away in a manger, it's a wonderful life." But most importantly perfect said with..."Christmas is all of these fun things for sure, but Christmas is really oh so much more...It's good news of hope for the whole world beause Christmas is JESUS." Always love spending a day celebrating our Savior and his birth, death, resurrection, and life that has given us hope, grace, mercy, and love.

Christmas Spirit

Nothing like a little Christmas Spirit to get you in the Christmas mood...

The days before...

Picking out the tree and getting all the Christmas decorations up is one of my favorite parts. One day I decided to "put up the tree all by myself" with my little dollar section Target find. Eventually, we got the real tree and decorated it with lights and of course the classic family ornaments and topper.