It's Christmas Time

Christmas is a wonderful time where I love to spend time at home with my family, even though not everyone is able to come home for Christmas. I had a most wonderful time here. The biggest surprise was the huge snow storm that stranded us in our house the week before Christmas. It is so much more snow than I have ever seen here in Portland. It was fun to see the snow, but I didn't love it because I see snow constantly in Rexburg, and I like the break from the cold and I love seeing my wonderful rain:) But it only lasted a week and a half, and we had a white Christmas, which I don't remember happening before either. So, we had fun playing in the house together:) I had a wonderful time doing puzzles and playing some games. We really enjoyed spending time together, cooped up in the house.
For Christmas, Santa gave me something that I had been asking for all year, a Wii! So, we had a lot of fun bowing, golfing, and playing tennis as well as Mario Kart and Dance Dance Revolution. I am still deciding whether I am bringing it back to school, my mom wants me to leave it at home, I think it's because she wants to play and use it:)
So, a wonderful season of joy and giving. I took my friends children out shopping for presents. While out, I asked them what their favorite part of Christmas was. Each said that their favorite part was not the presents, food, or worldly things, but celebrating the birth of Christ. I am thankful this Christmas to be reminded of the simple things in life and how I can look towards my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I love the Christmas season, not for the presents, but for the ability to spend time with family and to celebrate what Christmas is all about- the birth of our Savior who came down and suffered for our sins and than died for us so we could live with our Heavenly Father again some day. I love the Christmas stories that share the birth of the Savior and the true meaning of Christmas. May the Christmas season bring joy and peace to everyone throughout the year, not just at Christmas time.