Christmas Time

Christmas time is one of my favorite times of the year. It's a great time to be with friends and family. There is always a lot of good food to be had. I looove food, so that is very exciting for me. If there is snow, it's usually very beautiful, especially the snow covered evergreens. The decorations are beautiful. There are always a lot of fun parties happening! And most importantly we get to celebrate the birth of Jesus. I think that our pastor on Sunday morning said it best, God did not send Christ, so that we could have a holiday. God sent us Christ so that we could have life! A life full of love, grace, hope and peace!

This past weekend we started off our Christmas season with a bang! We had 2 potlucks. One was at our church. It was a lot of fun. There is always good food and a ton of laughs to be had. This year we had a photo booth, with props for people to put on to take their pictures in. There were santas, and elves, and reindeers!! It was hilarious! Then on Sunday, Ben and I hosted a Christmas party for Ben's team. It was great. This is the first year that we had our own team party. We had over 25 people come!!! That means our team is growing and that we have some really amazing people in our lives who we are getting know, and who we are having a ton of fun working with!  The food was also amazing; there was some chicken that was just incredible, as well as some homemade dumplings! So good.

For our party of Sunday I decorated our house all Christmasy and stuff. Here are some of the decorations that I put together this year. This is an idea that I got off of Pinterest. It's not exactly what they had, but I was working with thing that I had in my house. I didn't want to have to go out and buy more things. I love it because it was easy to do. All  I had to do was spray paint some wine bottles we had around the house, and then put some pretty flowers in.

 I think that this is the smallest Christmas tree, that we have ever gotten. But it fits perfectly in the space. After getting this smaller one, I am not sure why I ever felt the need to get  a bigger Christmas tree. They just take up a lot more space. Clayton helped us decorate this year. He was so excited to help! It was great! He put all the hooks on the decorations, and he put the beautiful "star" on top, his choice...

Here you will see our stockings. We really only had(have) three, but it didn't seem right not to have anything up for Cooper, so we added an Elmo slipper that we had lying around the house for him! It's so little and cute!! Today a friend of mine asked Clayton what he wanted to get from Santa Claus, and Clayton's answer was that he wanted a stocking to put on his foot!!! The story behind that is while we were putting up the stockings Ben put his on his foot like a sock, and then of course Clayton proceeded to put his stocking on his foot. Monkey, see monkey do right. Anyways I guess Clayton thought that was pretty cool, and that was what Santa would be doing with the stockings.. I am not sure he fully gets Santa yet....

Anyways I hope you enjoyed the blog today! I really do hope that you enjoy your Christmas season, and that you have a ton of fun while you are celebrating this absolutely wonderful time of year! And if anyone would like to come on over for some breakfast just let me know, we would love to have you over! Blessings!