SANTA IS REAL!

Tis the season to be giving and this year is breath taking!  This Christmas season I have seen and heard some things I find disturbing and amazing.  This year it has really been bugging me that people are trashing Santa and what he stands for.  Like the best buy commercials where they try to replace and mock Santa.  Also some people that also focus on the negative aspects of Santa like the commercial aspect with all the presents and people wanting the next big toy for their kids just to name a couple.

Like I said this year Santa being trashed has really been bugging me.  Not sure why.  To me Santa is amazing! Santa stands for giving, kindness, selflessness, and love.  Santa is a symbol of goodness and giving.  Now I know that Christmas is all about Christ and his birth.  It’s also about what Christ’s birth means to the world. Christ’s birth is about all the things that Santa stand for, peace, love, selflessness, giving.  But it also means forgiveness, salvation, charity just to name a few.  With that said Santa to me is a reminder of God and how he gave his Son to the world.  In a single night God changed the world for billions and gave us our ultimate Gift, his Son! 

Santa is a constant reminder to me that even a generous man named St. Nicholas who lived over one thousand years ago is still remembered  for his giving and selfless spirit after all these years.  I know his story has been embellished over the years but the message is the same.  Its amazing and inspiring to me that a simple man can be remembered for his giving.  If he can be remembered a thousand years later, what can we be remembered for, like St. Nicholas it makes me think with God and our desire what are we capable of being remembered for?

I started writing this because I was reminded this season just how real Santa is.  This season has been hard with us moving, having a beautiful baby and losing my job all in the same week and spending the last almost 3 months looking for a job to no avail.  This season has being inspiring and a beautiful reminder of all that is good and praise worthy in this life.  This season so many people both known and unknown have reached out to us and help in more ways than they may ever know. For this we are humbled and grateful.

To all that tell me there is no such thing as Santa, I say stop and look around don’t give in to the Grinch  and embrace the true spirit that is Christmas  both our Savior and his followers that are remembered even a thousand years later!

Happy Christmas to all

Our New York City Tradition

Im not sure it will be a tradition for many years to come, but as long as we live in Utah, it its amongst our most favorite seasonal activity. Rosey, being just shy of 3 months proved to have my adventerous spirit and was a good sport the whole day. I almost cant believe we took all three to the city, but we had Aunt Kim with us this year, so my fears didnt linger long.  After the red eye, we went to breakfast at big daddies in Gramercy Park. yum.  This year we added the 9/11 memorial to our itinerary. It was amazing. Beyond amazing actually. I didnt anticipate being so emotional, but being there, in that beautiful plaza and talking with the volunteers who stood in the rubble that day, hearing first hand their stories, I was just in awe. It is a beautiful sight to see this tribute to the fallen with 2 huge new towers being built around it. And the survivor tree, I think I may have dropped a tear or two when I saw it.  We hope we did an adequate job explaining to the kids what it all meant. In time, they will come to appreciate the time there (I hope). Moses kept asking us "can we PUH LEEESE go to new york now?" Thats when we realized "new york" to them, is Times square, FAO Schwartz and Macy's on 34th. So we went to "new york" and we had ourselves a super fun 15 hours in the city we've come to love at christmas time!  Having said that, our beds NEVER felt so good. Thank you for another Fabulous trip jetblue!

Im so tired....photos will have to wait for another day.