Merry Christmas

Christmas truly is the most wonderful time of the year and with a two year old Christmas took on a whole new level of excitement. First of all, we got our very first Christmas tree.

Spencer loves the tree. Every morning he can't wait to plug the lights in and identify the different colors he sees. He also liked the presents under the tree but he was pretty good about not touching them  prematurely. When it came time to open the presents Spencer liked ripping the paper and seeing what was inside.

Another favorite was the Christmas music. Some songs are really snappy and easy to sing along with like "Up on the House Top." He gets excited and dances around. He likes the slower more reverent hymns too. At church today we had several musical numbers and Spencer has never been more captivated.

Then of course there are the special Christmas decorations and clothes. Spencer liked seeing people's lawn displays of nativities and blow up snowmen. He also liked wearing reindeer antlers and Rudolf noses at Music Makers. And I can't leave out how proud he was to wear a fancy red Christmas vest to church today.

One of our favorite things we did this year was go to the Temple to see the lights and other Christmas displays.

Spencer was in little boy heaven as we walked the Temple grounds. He ran from tree to tree pointing at all the lights. I think his favorite part however was seeing the temple in real life. He sees pictures all the time and likes to point and say "Temple" but this time he actually got to walk right up to the Temple and see how BIG it was. He kept saying while pointing "Temple, BIG, white" over and over.

I love how new and exciting things are to little kids. Spencer's excitement was really contagious and made this Christmas a special one for us.