We love the Christmas season and the girls especially love our advent calendar filled with candy and a fun or spiritual holiday activity inside. It was filled with our usual traditions this year, and they seem to love them more and more each year. We start each Christmas season off with a trip to the live nativity in Alpine. Some of their favorite activities include:
visiting the reindeer at thanksgiving point
making (and eating) gingerbread houses
performing our own nativity at home (my personal fave)
seeing the christmas lights at temple square
anything snow related
grandma bell helped us start a new tradition with the wishing chair
decorating our christmas tree
the family christmas party (santa came this year!)
I loved hearing my Halle sing in her christmas program at school
This year we spent Christmas day in St. George with the Nimers. The girls loved playing with cousins. Lily had a freak accident in the bouncy house the day before Christmas Eve and couldn't walk for the next two days. She was x-rayed and the doctors couldn't find anything wrong with her. On Christmas day her dad gave her a priesthood blessing and after he was finished she declared with every little ounce of her faith "I'm all better." And the girl who would not take two steps for the past two days, walked across the room and into my arms. She still limped, but believed she was healed and it made all the difference. It truly was a Christmas miracle.
Santa brought the girls American girl dolls complete with their own little horses. They were showered with gifts from sweet relatives. These girls are truly loved.
Wes was excited to have a Christmas do-over after being released from the hospital the year before on Christmas Eve with a feeding tube. It is amazing to see the progress he made in a year. I still count my many blessings that he is here to celebrate holidays and everything in between with us.
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