SOME CHRISTMAS LOVE

Watch this for all the warm fuzzy feelings of Christmas love!

 

SANTA CAME EARLY THIS YEAR!

 

Over Thanksgiving, we got the exciting news that our oldest daughter Abigail and her husband Eric are expecting their first baby in May 2025!

The boys are going to be uncles- that will be a wonderful and probably hilarious experience 😃

After Abigail and Eric got engaged, Jonah started asking about a baby.  We told him that first they had to get married.  So the day after the wedding, at the gift opening, Jonah went up to Abigail and asked her where the baby was.  Jonah is a very literal person!  

Well, his dream is finally coming true.   

There's a baby coming!

And in this particular situation, 

I think we are all as excited as Jonah!

Abigail and Eric's "official" pregnancy announcement photo for Facebook

Jonah, thinking he should be part of the pregnancy announcement- haha!

HAVE YOURSELF A BLESSED LITTLE CHRISTMAS

Everywhere you go this month, you hear strains of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” right? It was written by Hugh Martin for the film Meet Me in St. Louis, in which Judy Garland made it famous. Sometime later, Hugh, a successful composer and lyricist, suffered a nervous breakdown – but through it, he came to know Jesus Christ! Afterward, he decided to rewrite sacred lyrics for his Christmas classic – he called it “Have Yourself a Blessed Little Christmas.”

Have Yourself A Blessed Little Christmas 

Original Words & Music by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane 

Sacred lyrics by: Hugh Martin and John Fricke

Have yourself a blessed little Christmas, Christ the King is born. Let your voices ring upon this happy morn. 

Have yourself a blessed little Christmas, Serenade the earth. Tell the world we celebrate the Savior’s birth.

Let us gather to sing to him, And to bring to him our praise. Christ the Lord is the gift for all, 

To the end of all our days.

Sing hosannas, hymns & hallelujahs, As to him we bow. Make the music mighty as the heav’ns allow. And have yourself a blessed little Christmas now.

THOUGHT:

What can I change this Christmas season to make my celebrations and experiences be more about Jesus?