Quick Post ;)

Tonight my family and I put are Christmas decorations up on the tree! Love this time of the year! Soooo many memories. :)

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The. Countdown. Is. On. t-24 days

Today is December 1st of 2011! That means only 24 days until Christmas! Over the last couple years, Christmas has taken on a whole new meaning for me... I feel strange making a "list of all the gifts I want or "need". I am realizing that Christmas is SO MUCH MORE that buying gifts, getting gifts, the great food, or the warm, cozy feeling we get when we put up our decorations - not that all that stuff is bad! It's great! But I think we have lost site of what Christmas truly is. It is about the day Jesus Christ was born. WAIT A SECOND.. Yes, I said when Jesus Christ was born!!! Isn't that just amazing!? We hear this over and over, ever single year we hear about this, about this baby that was born in a manger.. and grew up to be the savior of the world...etc. No! It is not etc., Jesus Christ was born for YOUR sins, to save YOU, to love YOU! This should not be taken to lightly! How can we hear this and not be moved? Not have unspeakable joy!?
I hope and pray that our focus takes a 360 degree turn this year, and that our eyes our open to the miricale that happened on that day in the stables.

"She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he WILL save his people from their sins."
                                      - Matthew 1:21

Busy, Busy, Busy, Wednesday!

If you haven't noticed, it is Wednesday! Not only is it normally a busy day in my week, but it is also the day after our family vacation! So it was been even crazier. Trying to catch up with homework, unpacking, cleaning, and then getting ready to head to church for the evening.
Every Wednesday my siblings and I help serve the weekly dinner at our church in Wichita. It is quite the job cooking for and then serving, usually, over 100 people - but I love it! It has been great getting to know some of the people that come there; eventhough not one of them is my age. Haha :)

Family vacation was great! Normally families go on vacation with just "their" family (mom, dad, kids). Not ours! The whole gang goes! Grandparents, Aunt & Uncle, and cousins! It is quite the trip! This year we went up to Kansas City for four days. While we were up there, we packed in tons of shopping, Christmas Light tour, Great Wolf Lodge, the Money Museum, the only WWI memorial in the world, and most of all - awesome family time.
At the hotel we stayed at, it has 12 floors and the middle of the hotel is sort of like hollowed out... so we dropped bouncy balls down from the 12th floor... yep. It was pretty much awesome. :) Even though it was a great weekend; I am so glad to be home!!

Below are some pictures from the Kansas City: