Merry Christmas

This has been such a special for Christmas for Sarah and I. This is our first Christmas together and a wonderful chance to establish traditions for our new family. Some highlights include: making sugar cookies with our friend Lee, caroling to new friends in french, setting up a tree, leaving cookies and milk out for Santa, reading the Christmas story of both continents in 3 Nephi 1 and Luke 2 and waking up early to open presents. The funniest Christmas moment happened last week as volunteered to gift wrap at the mall, with proceeds going to charity. Things "unraveled" pretty quickly when the group we were with had to leave after only one hour, and no one else showed up to help us for another two hours. In other words, we were alone at the gift wrapping booth for two hours during the busiest hours of the day! It was insane and certainly was a great opportunity for us to work on communication skills. But by the end of evening we felt great about having raised a couple hundred dollars for people with disabilities. That's what it's all about right? Christmas is also about drawing close as a family, and it's been great. I've never felt closer to Sarah and as I wrote in my card to her, it's humbling to have married someone I admire and look up to so much. But when it gets down to it, Christmas is about Christ, right? Here's a great talk by a modern day Apostle about why Christ's life was so important and how it can help us all, regardless of how overwhelming our problems seem.