Christmas Bliss-mas!

The holiday season has been so fun with our new little buddy. We love it when weekends come around and Daddy gets to hang out with us. Leah l.o.v.e.s her daddy. (I think it might be all the crazy voices and accents he does... she is enthralled with him)

On Saturday, we had plans to take her to see Santa (mostly to humor me. I've waited a long time for these opportunities and I wanted to make sure her 1st Christmas is well documented)

She seemed pretty excited?!?

But..... in the end... she slept right through it!!

Santa was so cute with her and couldn't take his eyes off of her.

(I kinda know the feeling)

*****

And on Sunday, we decided to take her to church for the first time. Chris and I have been taking turns while juggling her and our callings these last couple of months, but it was our annual Youth Christmas Devotional/Brunch and we both worked hard to make it happen and we didn't want to miss it!

She got gussied up in some fancy duds and came along. She was so good and slept through most of it. She didn't start melting down until the devotional was nearly over and mommy wanted to get some family pictures...
(Proof)

However, after a little lunch and some snuggling, she was back to being my perfect angel and she made it to her first Sacrament Meeting. It was so sweet to be in church all together as a family for the first time and especially on my favorite Sunday of the year. The Christmas program was amazing, as usual. I felt overwhelmed with emotion and love and blessings. I remember being younger and seeing cute couples and families in church. I always loved seeing husbands with their arms around their wives especially when they had sweet little ones. This particular Sunday felt a little bit, like I was given an out of body experience. As I sat there celebrating this Christmas season, I realized that finally, as I am nearing middle-aged, I am whole. I was meant to be a mother and I was sitting right where I was supposed to be at that moment, with exactly the people that I've prayed for my entire life. What a miraculous year! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.

This is shaping up to be one of my best holiday seasons yet.

***and on another note, we are now working on two weeks of the littlemiss sleeping between 9 and 11 hours every single night. It's life-changing. Truly.

If Silent Night wasn't my favorite Christmas hymn before... it most certainly is now!!!