With a busy year of moving and family visits, we ran out of vacation days which meant our holidays would be spent in Chicago. We have missed being with extended family, but we're blessed with technology that keeps us close, and are extremely grateful for all the family time we did have throughout the year.
Geoff and I have been making extra efforts to keep the focus of Christmas on the Savior and what His life means to us. We are grateful for the scriptures that testify of Him, the modern resources we have to better understand His mission and how we can be enabled and strengthened through Him.
It was also wonderful to see how much the kids enjoyed learning about the Savior. We had a devotional each night about His life using "The 25 Days of Christ" gift Dean and Andrea gave us a few years back. The girls LOVED finding out what the ornament would be each night. Each item represented something about the Savior and it was lovely to hear Hylie and Eliana talk about what they thought the ornament was portraying.
Hylie asked if she could do a presentation on Christmas Eve and Geoff and I were touched that it was all centered around the birth of Christ. She included Eliana and Lillian with everything and ended her message by playing the Christmas songs she has learned on the piano.
We're grateful for the reflection and family time this season can bring. We have been truly blessed because of the Savior's life and pray to understand and do more of what He has asked of us in our mortality.
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