BABY JESUS

 With Nola being so young this year I struggled with how to teach her about the true meaning of Christmas. Our savior Jesus Christ. Every day we would look at the few nativity sets I have and I would tell her about the different pieces. I made sure to highlight baby Jesus. Right around this time Nola was learning to give kisses, so I asked her if she wanted to give baby Jesus a kiss? This became a daily ritual. It melted my heart to see her give baby Jesus kisses. I hope I can teach her how much she is loved by her big brother Jesus Christ!

Everything is ten times more magical with a child! We had such a lovely time decorating our tree. After figuring out the whole light stringing business, we pulled out all our ornaments that Zach and I picked out together for our first christmas four years ago! I love pulling out something I haven't seen for an entire year! When I see these ornaments I'm immediately flooded with memories of past christmas's, of just Zach and I. Now we have a new member of the family to share it with, and it couldn't feel more special. It was also fun to add some new ornaments to our collection this year, including Nola's first christmas ornament. (a little lamb with wooden legs). She even picked it out!

Having a decorated tree was not as hard as I thought it would be with this little whirlwind zooming around the place.  She was pretty good to leave the tree alone, for the most part. Besides her favorite few ornaments, one of them being this little fox. No matter what she was doing she always managed to snag this fox right off the tree. I didn't mind though, I purposefully put the non breakable ornaments on the bottom, just for her. I'm sure the reunion between these two will be sweet, when that box of ornaments comes out again the first of December. 

Because we were going to spend Christmas in St George this year, we had a Christmas celebration with the lloyds a week or so before Christmas, and we also had our own little Christmas morning, a couple days before we went down south. Zach and I enjoy going to the store together, but then splitting up to find our stocking stuffers. It makes for an eventful evening, it was pretty hard sneaking out of target with that window scraper, without him noticing though. Nola's sock didn't contain very much but she did get some freeze dried pomegranate puffs, and some sippy cups. I loved this sweet deer doll I found at Anthropology! I wasn't sure if she would love it as much as I do, because its not soft and fluffy, but she gives her love and plenty of play time! Zach surprised me with climbing shoes, for me and himself, which I am super excited about.  And I got him a new camera strap. Of course Nola loved the bows, and paper the most! Not only were they entertaining but also a nice snack too. How cute are her Christmas jimmies, that belonged to me when I was a wee little one?! They were just a tad too small so they gave her wedgies sometimes, it was hilarious!   It sure was fun celebrating just the three of us.