The day started with me waking up bright and early. After failing to get sleepy Michael interested in getting up and going to early service I decided to take a shower and then do a little bit of Christmas decorating.
I really like how this turned out and it brought a little Christmas into our kitchen! Then of course we had to test the Mistletoe and make sure it worked. Luckily I had installed it properly.
After that Michael got ready and we finally headed off to church. We took the (slightly) longer way so we could enjoy the Christmas decorations that were up in The Downtown area. We of course listened to Christmas music as we drove.
I knew that the Christmas decorations had also been put up at church so I of course I had to take a few pictures of everything before we went up to our Sunday School Class.
Our Sunday School class went really well today. The lesson we were teaching was about Jacob's dream (you know with the ladder and the Angels). The kids were really good today and the highlight of the lesson was when we were talking about how the Church was an awesome place. I mentioned that they had put the Christmas decorations up in the Sanctuary and how the kids would get to see them during church. They said they wanted to see them now and I decided to just take them in there even if it meant we wouldn't have time for all of our lesson. I am so glad that I did. So we walked to the balcony of the church (It is on the same level as the Sunday School classrooms) and the lights were off in the Sanctuary so the trees were just glowing so beautifully. And I looked at the kids faces and could tell they got it. They could see for themselves that the Church was an awesome place to be. I know this is a memory I will carry with me for the rest of my life and I can only hope and pray that the kids will remember it too. (In case you are wondering we did finish all of the Sunday school lesson except for some of the craft)
Then it was time for Church. I was very excited for church today because it was the start of Advent. (In case you haven't figured it out yet I Love love love Christmas and Advent) I took a few pictures.
Then settled down to enjoy the service (ok that last picture was taken during the Children's Sermon. I usually don't take pictures during the service but I wanted to get one of the first candle lit) The sermon was about what Advent and Palm Sunday have in common and was very good. After the service was done we had someone from the Gideons (The people who put all the Bibles in the hotel rooms. They do a lot more then that of course but that would probably be what you are most familiar with) talk to us. He was a very good speaker and he used example stories that I hadn't heard before so I actually enjoyed his short speech a lot.
After church we did some shopping and then came home and ate lunch. Michael had to go to work and I had a productive afternoon/evening. When Michael came home from work (He got off an hour early!) we had supper and then it was time to Decorate the tree! Also to drink wine! The wine was called Sugarplum and I had gotten it after I went to a wine tasting last week with my aunt and uncle and sister. Of course before we could put the lights on the tree we had to do our tradition that I call the running of the rats! Basically we put the rats in the Christmas tree and let them run around and climb a little while I attempt to get at least one good picture.
Those are a few of the pictures. Then it was time for Michael to put the lights on. Michael is always in charge of our Christmas lights. He loves them. I think we take the next picture almost every single year.
While Michael was putting the lights on the tree I was adding every single Christmas station Pandora had so I could make (what I call) the ultimate Christmas shuffle. I'm actually listening to it right now while I type this too. Then it was time to put on our ornaments. Our very first Christmas together we started our ornament tradition. I think I started it for two reasons. One was to keep us (me) from going crazy trying to fill our tree up with fun ornaments that first year (aka to keep us from going broke) but the other was because I wanted us to have a Christmas tradition that was our very own. So what is the tradition? Every year each of us gets to pick out 1 Christmas ornament and then we get a family ornament that hopefully represents our year. When we have kids each of them will get to pick there own ornament too. I am so glad we are doing this. We had so much fun looking at our special ornaments and remembering the stories behind them while we decorated the tree. Our tree turned out beautifully. And we went to bed knowing we were ready for December to begin and counting down the days until Christmas.
It was an awesome day filled with Christmas and love. What made your day beautiful?
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