Born is the King of Israel

Ohhhh! I just love Christmas! Of course, I've obviously been too caught up & busy to write my blog for 2 weeks!! I've missed telling everyone so much!

First, Brady went to his first movie on Dec. 6th with me, Josh & Kendall and all the rest of Josh's unit in Hoover. We went to see A Christmas Carol. It was okay. What I really focused on was how Braden enjoyed himself. I think we're officially okay to take him to movies now because he did WONDERFUL! He sat through it quietly & pretty still. Which is saying a LOT for Brady. Well, around the time the 2nd ghost showed up to visit Scrooge, Braden had climbed up in his daddy's lap and fallen asleep. It was sweet, a very good first time movie experience.

When we left the movies we went to the Christmas Tree farm in Fultondale and picked out our tree for the year. It's become one of our family traditions and it's something the kids really enjoy. They have reindeer, free hot chocolate & apple cider, free wagon rides, Santa's sleigh (for picture taking) and acres & acres for the kids to run around. We got a gorgeous tree! I'll have to finally get some of my pictures uploaded to my computer and post them for everyone.

This weekend should be fun. Saturday my friend KB, her kids & hubby are coming over and we're going to have a Polar Express PJ party. Our boys, Ben & Braden are best buds and we're going to let them sit and watch Polar Express w/hot chocolate and enjoy themselves. Buddy Ben & Buddy Braden (that's what they call each other) will probably end up watching part of the movie and then running around & playing with toys for the rest of the night, but they'll have fun and that's what matters! Then Sunday it's time to go to my Grandmother's house for Christmas!! Yay! The festivities have begun!!

OH! And I'm off work the entire week of Christmas! Yay me!

Dec. 17th 2009-

I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely. God bless Christmas!

-Charles Dickens

It's SNOW fun waiting...

I sometimes have trouble remembering what the magic felt like at this time of the year. Leave it to your child to remind you. Brady has taken to asking me everyday since Thanksgiving day, "Is it Christmas today?". As your typical 4 year old, he seems very excited about Christmas and the presents. I've decided to write a little Christmas book especially for him, focusing on Santa and how he's a follower of Christ and focusing on the reason we celebrate and give gifts...hopefully he'll understand a little more that Christmas isn't really about material gifts, but the gift God sent to all of us. We'll see how it works. This week he's also turned his focus on Christmas music and snow. YES, snow! He asked me this morning "Mommy, will it snow for Christmas?". I had to explain to him that it doesn't snow very much here, and we probably wouldn't get any for Christmas. I think he tuned me out. I'm pretty sure he'll ask me about snow again tonight. And after seeing the rest of the weeks forecast, I'll get to tell him we may see a little snow this weekend! Just look at this forecast I got from ABC 33/40!!!

This weekend we'll be spending time with Josh's unit. They've got a "family" drill planned. This is his drill weekend, but they'll have special things going on that the whole family can get involved in. I know Sunday they are supposed to have a theatre rented out so that we can all (kids included) go see A Christmas Carol, the newest CGI/Cartoon remake w/Jim Carrey. I'm looking forward to that, and if we get to go it will be Brady's FIRST movie. I think it's completely appropriate. A movie w/the Army families, and a classic like the Christmas Carol...seems the perfect time for Brady's first movie.