God's Greatest Gift ~

The Greatest Gift is the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. This Christmas Celebration is to keep our hearts and homes focusing on the true meaning of Christmas. The Christ child was God's gift to the world. 

During these difficult months, I have found great peace through keeping my sight on the Savior. He is the Savior of the world and came to open the door to our everlasting life. Through his infinite atonement and resurrection, we will all live again. As we choose the Covenant path, it will lead us back to be with our Heavenly Parent and Jesus Christ forever. 

I know that our redeemer lives and loves each and every one of us. He is there to succor and lifts us in our times of struggle and sorrow. He is there to enjoy with us our moments of joy. He has suffered all that he might lift us and bring peace to our hearts. We are here to experience earth life where we obtained a body and life experiences because of Him.  Our Savior is the way, the truth, and the light. 

As you worship this tiny baby's birth in Bethlehem so long ago. Remember why we are celebrating this divine birth. Read in the New Testament - Luke 2. 

Tonight we will meet on Zoom with our eternal family. We are hoping that we will have everyone on this call.  Presently, we have 6 children, 32 grandchildren, and 5 Great Grandchildren. Many of them we haven't seen for a very long time. We feel like having a Zoom call is a gift from Heaven. 

Our Eternal Family~

May each of you have a delightful Christmas Eve and Christmas Celebration and remember the reason Why!

I'm sharing with you today a video of our remarkable Prophet, President Russell M. Nelson. He is the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He is a vigorous 96-year-old man and has incredible energy and the ability to lead our worldwide faith. This video was taken last year during Christmas time. It is President Nelson playing the piano for Claire Crosby to sing; "Silent Night." In the end, there are some questions. They discuss colors, and if you take a moment and relate that to us as brothers and sisters with no prejudice towards a race or cultural diversity of any kind. President Nelson loves all colors, as do I. 

I pray that this year we will all pull together to make a better world and bring peace. May we learn to love and accept one another as the Savior loves each of us.    

 In closing this post, I invite you into my home to see how we decorated for Christmas this year. We thought about not decorating very much but then realized that we love Christmas and the reason for the celebration so we should decorate and enjoy it all. 

Here is the entrance to our home. We have a snowman theme in some of the areas. Note the group of Snowpeople. My favorite is the nurse. I was an RN for several years and greatly appreciated all the front-line people during this Pandemic. 

The photo above is what we call our piano room. It is the most special room in our home.  During this time of quarantine, we have been able to have our own Sacrament meeting here. There is a special feeling for me when I am in this room. 

Here is our living room. This year we bought a new tree. When we were first married, we had real flocked trees for years and determined that we would never have a fake tree. We lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, for 7 years and found that live trees didn't even last through the season; thus, our trees have been fake ones. This year we love our new flocked tree. For my birthday this year, my husband bought ornament replicas of the temples we have been to. There are 51. I don't think we will ever make it to all of our temples. There are right now 160 operating temples throughout the world. We are hoping to finish attending those in the State of Utah. There are 19 and 9 more announced and under construction. 

As we go into the kitchen area. My favorite Nativity set on the left is around 48 years old. It is a favorite for sure. The other nativity scene is found in our entryway, and then the rest is in our kitchen. 

Even though we don't have anyone coming to our home for dinner this Christmas, I love to set the table with the china that I inherited from my mother. It is probably about 60 plus years old. 

Here are photos of our basement decorations. Our tree is a toy animal tree, and it shows our Garfield collection. This other Nativity is a treasure; also, we have had it for several years. 

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas. May you turn to the Savior this Christmas and feel His light and love in your homes and heart.