"Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride." Gordon B. Hinckley

Nov 28, 2013

Decorating the Christmas Tree

The kids love to get the tree out and decorate it! Our tree is special, all the ornaments that the kids have been given all these years and all the ornaments they have made me from school go on our tree. There is a lot of love in our tree and a lot of memories. We love to look through all the ornaments and remember whose was whose and why they got it or why they gave it to me. I let the kids do all the decorating and the tree is sometimes very lopsided, but it is exactly how they like it. I love to just sit back and watch Raegan play with the ornaments and Jaxon race his car ornaments or tractor ornaments around the house, it is all just so fun for me and for the kids. Josh is always so nice to get the tree out for us and help decorate, he loves to decorate the tree and I can tell that when he was a little boy he was probably very much like Jaxon is when he gets all his ornaments out. We usually decorate the day after Thanksgiving or really close to that day as we prepare for Christmas and this year we decorated on Thanksgiving day after we had dinner, such a fun day!

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