Believe

Believe in yourself... Believe you are a child of god... Believe that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you... Believe that there is a purpose and meaning in your life... Believe in Heavenly Father's plan for happiness... Believe in Joseph Smith and the first vision... Believe in the Book of Mormon... Believe that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet of God... Believe that you can follow the prophets course... Believe that you can find joy and happiness in your life... Believe that there is beauty and goodness in the world... Believe that being positive and optimistic is the best way... Believe that Christ was born in Bethlehem... Believe that Jesus Christ lived and taught true principals... Believe that he died for you and atoned for your sins... Believe that you can repent and change... Believe that Christ was resurrected and that he lives... Believe that you too will live again... Believe that your family can be eternal...Believe in the magic of Christmas!

We had such a wonderful, eventful and memorable December. We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends and family to celebrate the life of our savior with. This Christmas was even more special because Shane's mom came to spend the holiday with us. We had such a great time with her! I'm pretty sure Ty is still on overload from Christmas with two Grandmas, one Grandpa, one mom, one dad, one Aunt and one uncle all in one house on Christmas morning= spoiled to death.

Here is a few of our favorite things about December...

Decorating our very first "real" tree since we've been married.

Seeing Santa

Christmas Cards! (We were slackers this year with Christmas cards! Maybe New Years cards instead?) We still loved getting all of yours!

Picking out the perfect tree.

New Christmas Jammies. (Bri and I swear we too had an exact pair of these in the 80's!)

Parties with great friends.

Hot Coco.

Mmmm...So good!

Ward Party.

Hanging out with some of our favorite people.

Making Gingerbread trains.

Writing letters to Santa

Giving.

Stockings.

Leaving cookies and milk out for Santa...

and carrots for his reindeer.

Realizing that Santa is real.

Being completely spoiled.

And last but not least. I have been HORRIBLE at taking pictures and documenting this pregnancy, but here is the belly at 29 weeks. I feel bigger this time around than I did with Tylie, and I keep growing bigger everyday. I am now 31 weeks and I really can't imagine what I will look like in 9 more weeks...quite frankly, it scares me!