Last year was our first Christmas with Lily. On Christmas Eve we had a bit of a crisis and ended up spending Christmas evening at the emergency vet. It was a rough couple weeks, and I have to say, I had a pretty good pity party for myself. It wasn't at all how I wanted my 1st Christmas with my baby girl to go. But when I think back, I remember playing with her in the waiting room and how happy she was and her little smiles. I guess I learned that I should be content no matter what the circumstances are. This year, I was really excited that things would be different, and I have been cherishing every moment.
One of the things my family normally does every Christmas is to make a decorate Christmas cookies. My mom will make sugar cookies from scratch and then me, my siblongs, and my cousins would ice and decorate them. Well, we majorly cheated this year - I bought pre-formed cookies that only had to be dropped on a cookie sheet, and I bought icing too. I have no excuses for myself other than bad time management. We still had fun, though!
tasting some icing
Daddy is so funny!
The women in my family have a tradition of giving each other ornaments for Christmas. Lily will join in around the time she is in high school, just like I did. For now, I wanted to do something different with her regarding ornaments, so I decided I would like to make one with her every year. Hopefully in future years we can get really crafty, but this year we just took it easy and she painted one. Unfortunately I do not have pictures of her paiting it since she and I were the only ones around. But, here is the finished product.
Hopefully I will have many ornaments created by her decorating our tree one day.
Something new we started this year was getting a birthday cake for Jesus. Totally makes sense, right? We decided on red velvet since the colors red and white have special meaning for Christians.
Red - symbolizes Jesus' blood that was shed for us
White - the purity we gain when Jesus' blood washes away our sins
Christmas morning Lily found her star for the final time. Then she placed it back next to baby Jesus.
This has been an amazing experience for all of us. She has had so much fun each morning finding the star, and it has taught us a lot as parents. It has helped me to think of ways to talk about Jesus, and I am hoping to continue that as we move forward.
Pictures from Christmas morning:
playing angry birds with Papa
wake up, uncle!!!
getting tickled
reading the Christmas story
opening presents
I'm pretty sure we now own every toy in the world.
watching "A Christmas Story"
yummy mashed potatoes
We had a very Merry Christmas, and I hope you all did as well!!!
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