My Favorite Christmas Things

•    Paintings of the Nativity Scene

• Thinking about the night through Mary's perspective. She was just a teenager!

• How the air smells when it's very cold 

• Ginger bread houses

• Seeing presents under the tree

• Watching the fire in the fireplace with Christmas songs

• Hot chocolate with mini-marshmallows

• The Christmas Story as told by Luke

•  The Christmas lights at the Saint George temple

• Driving around to see the neighborhood Christmas lights

• Cloudy, cold weather

• Buying gifts for people

• Baked eggs, cranberry cookies, cheese balls, and broccoli casserole

•  Real pine trees

• "Feliz Navidad", "Jingle Bell Rock", and "O Holy Night"

• Advent Calendars

• Small stocking gifts

• Trying to guess what people got me :)