Merry Christmas

Santa left our stockings on his way up the chimney and apparently he wasn't very hungry as he only ate a couple of the cookies...and left the others half eaten :) waiting on the steps to hear to "go" which begins the charge into the living roomOlivia got an American Girl Doll....Rebecca

Alex has outgrown hotwheels and legos, he is in to fruit...apple in particular :)

Lucas asked Santa for a stuffed tiger. Joshua asked for Star Wars the Clone Wars legos.

Alex surprised the boys by giving them his legos and action figures. Now they won't have to sneak into his room to get them :)

The aftermath

Another Christmas morning has come. I pray your day is blessed and joyous!

By the way...if you look past us to the window you can see a little white. Yes, we had a dusting of snow for our Christmas morning!

For unto you is born this day in the city of David, A Savior which is Christ the Lord!

Someday

I love Christmas music. We have a local radio station that plays Christmas music 24/7 from Thanksgiving Day through Christmas night. I listen to everything from The Little Drummer Boy to I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. I love just about everything they play. The downside is that this is a secular station so they eliminate some of the most beautiful songs. For the truly Christ centered songs I turn to my tried and true collection of CD's. This year I have fallen in love with a song from Sandi Patty's last Christmas CD. The song is called Someday. It is sung like a lullaby from Mary to Baby Jesus. As a mother I remember nights of holding my newborns and wondering what life would bring for them. With the twins, I especially remember those nights because I feared their tiny bodies might not grow into the dreams I held for them. Now, looking back I realize what an amazing blessing I had to hold each of my babies and whisper prayers in their ears. That is probably why this song has come to mean so much to me. Imagine what Mary felt the first night she held her baby. Did she whisper the same prayers other mothers have whispered? Her son was to be the Savior of the World but still, in that time, in her heart He was simply her baby.

A bit of christmas

We are deep into the Christmas season. Lots of parties and events to attend. One of the biggest joys was watching our children in church programs. Olivia was fortunate enough to sing a special part in the children's program. Can I tell you...I cried the entire time. Not surprising, huh? This precious child opened her mouth and Jesus came shining through.

I hope to post more pics and videos of this holiday season, but today is a snow day here which means....I don't have time to sit at the computer because if I turn my head some snow-themed catastrophe is about erupt :) So that is all for now.

Would love to have been there

I absolutely love this video. Yes, I teared up and you better believe I stood up. The story goes like this...

The Wanamaker department store (now Macy's) in Philadelphia has a huge pipe organ in the atrium, spread over five floors or so. The pipe organ is played for weekly concerts. For this concert, 650 singers posed as shoppers, and when the organist played the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah, they all started singing to the surprise of the regular shoppers. Must have sounded spectacular.