Merry Christmas

We hope that you (as our loyal blog readers!) have a wonderful Christmas.  We were watching some home movies from this past year tonight and in remembering all the fun times we realized that this has been such a great year, with many blessings and happiness. 

At Christmas time our family loves to focus on Jesus Christ and his love and sacrifice for us.  I'm so grateful for Him, my Savior. I'm grateful for my family, my sweet husband Jared, and my children.  Holidays are so much better with children.  We've been able to do some fun family activities this year like seeing the lights on temple square, decorating cookies, watching Christmas movies,  having our own "Polar Express", reading scriptures and completing a daily "advent" activity from the Friend Magazine which focus's on Jesus being the light of the world.  We've also have passed around a Christmas Star, where whoever has the star is to do a service for someone in the family.  The kids were super excited to do this for about 5 days, and then got bored. So now we started another service game where we have randomly picked a family member's name and we are to do secret acts of kindness for the next couple days until Christmas.

A big thank you to all of our extended family members and friends.  We are so grateful for the love you give our family.  May your Christmas be full of love from family and friends, and we send you many good wishes for 2014.