devotions...

(From day one in our relationship, we always read our Bible together via the phone, we'd pick out a Section of the bible and read a whole chapter, splitting up the verses) We've been reading all of the infertile couple stories in the Bible. I ordered some new devo books and I can't wait till we get them delivered in less that a week!! More things to read together!!

Christmas

I cannot wait for Christmas, only 22 days away. I hope and pray this is the best Christmas ever! My sister and brother in law and baby nephew are flying and coming to spend Christmas with us. I cannot wait to see them, especially spend time with the baby!!

We are going to go road tripping around California, probably see San Fran, Big Sur, Sequoia National Park and LA. I cannot wait. It's very possible for it to be snowing or have snowed in the redwoods!!! (there's a 50% chance of snow on Thrusday and we'll be going the weekend after Christmas. So I may get my white Christmas this year, belated of course, but i'm hoping that we get to see some snow, we'll have to bundled all up!!! :)

I am looking forward to Christmas, it's one of my fave times of years and I'm so thrilled we have a real Christmas tree and we're having company!!

I hope this Christmas is the best Christmas ever and we get the greatest gift of all that we want!!

Traditions

The Saturday after Thanksgiving is our new family tradition of "tree day" the day we go pick out our tree. This was my first year having a real tree!! I was so psyched to go pick out a tree and have the smell of a real tree in our home! We went to Home Depot and looked through almost every Noble Fir there, we had to find the perfect one. Finally, we found one that we both loved. (The tree cost more than we were expecting but we wanted a Noble instead of a Douglas, and we thought it was worth it)

We set up the stand and unraveled the tree, then strung the lights and put on the ornaments. Our theme/color scheme is golds, pearls, stars, and oranges. Our tree looks really beautiful. I like it.