December is truly a magical time of the year. I love all the lights, music, family parties, and all that remind us why we celebrate Christmas. This was the first year that we had lights put up and it was really magical. We never really considered putting lights up until we saw Reese's face light up when our neighbor's put up their lights. It was the cutest thing. She would sit on our front porch in the freezing cold and just look at our neighbor's lights for about 20 minutes and say, "Mama, the lights are so boootiful!" We couldn't resist and surprised the girls with lights and they loved them. Reese never forgot to turn on the lights at night and she would tell everyone about her lights and even would comment on how bootiful her lights were in the daytime when they were not turned on. So putting up the lights started off our holiday season. Another thing that made this season wonderful was the music. We finally bought a pre-lit Christmas tree and it was so nice and easy to put up. Ron surprised the girls with this thing called Holiday DJ and it is a speaker that connects to the tree lights and you can sync it with any song on your phone and the lights will flash to the music. The girls absolutely loved it and we spend many days and nights dancing around the Christmas tree. One of the cutest things was Nora's dancing. It would start with a head bob and soon move to her body moving until she was rocking and her bum was coming off the floor. I am sure that the Holiday DJ will bring us a lot of fun and excitement for a lot of years.
Here are my top ten favorite things that we did this holiday season....
1. Driving around at night looking at Christmas lights
2. Dancing and singing around the Christmas tree
3. Decorating the Christmas tree with Reese and Nora
4. Decorating our gingerbread Christmas village
5. Going to see "Savior of the World" with the young women and young men
6. All the activities on Christmas Eve ( dinner, chimes, nativity scene, singing, books
7. Playing in the snow
8. Snuggling with my girls in their cute Christmas pajamas
9. Watched lots of Christmas Hallmark movies
10. Singing Christmas songs
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