advent

it is sad that the older we get the more un-christmas like christmas seems... you become aware of how commercialized the season is... you come across angry shoppers and then you realize you are one of those angry shoppers (sad)... yeah it just gets harder and harder to get into the christmas spirit

until you experience it again through your own child and this is evan's first christmas... i'm absolutely loving it but it also brings about questions in our mind as to how we'll celebrate it and how we'll teach him the meaning of christmas which bring us to think about advent...

advent means the coming of (well the coming of Christ in this instance) and we (the church) celebrate advent as a season of waiting (so you have advent calendars, etc to help act out this expectant waiting) so our wheels are turning as to how we'll do this next year but even now it's exciting and seeing evan open his presents and help decorate the tree and wrap presents for others gives us renewed hope and spirit for what is to come...

until then we celebrate christmas and advent and thank God that he came to give us hope

merry christmas you all!

 our early christmas present... look how small he is!

 now he's our little happy elf... he can eat his former self i think