Merry Christmas to ALL!!!

At the beginning of December, we all got up early and headed to the local tree farm (and I'm not talking about the one right next door, although Margaret did suggest it... "Mom, there's MILLIOMS and MILLIOMS of trees RIGHT THERE! How come we have to get in the truck and go get a tree???") to harvest our Christms tree. Then we all loaded back into the truck to take Andrew to the airport so that he could spend two weeks in Arizona working with the Gila Valley Temple. While he was gone, the girls and I decorated the tree. What you see is the side they decorated. I kept telling them the tree had more than one side, but they wanted to save that side for something else. I'm still waiting to find out what that something else is...

And here they are. The proud decorators. I'm sparing you the photo where Margaret is rapidly moving away from Savannah and she looks cranky. It doesn't seem to fit the Christmas spirit...

And to all... a slowdown of the Christmas season so that you have time to get the things done that you want to get done, and still enjoy each other... (o.k. the slowdown's not really going to happen, so...)

May you all find that Christmas brings Christ more into your homes and your lives this coming year.