Merry Christmas Season Everyone!! This is our first Christmas together as husband and wife. This is actually our fifth Christmas together, but this year is definitely different.
Activities are in full swing. The first event every year is Jonathan's company Christmas dinner with Garber Electric. It's always held the first Saturday in December. They always have a beautiful dinner and a great program. It's always a great way to start the Christmas season off.
This past weekend we went to the Salem Church of God Christmas Program. Something we do every year, but for some reason, this year was even more phenomenal. The story for this years program was a struggling single mother of teenagers. Her own children helped there mother surrender to the love of Jesus through there local church. They put on an awesome program. Complete with there huge choir singing amazing songs, orchestra, dancing and kids of all ages. Many sponsors from all over the community donate money to the church to help them make the program happen. All money donated from the audience is used to provide food to needy families through out the community. I highly recommend there show to everyone. I already can't wait until next year!
As many of you have already seen, we put up our Christmas tree a few weeks ago. We recently added our Christmas train to the base of our tree. Jonathan got the train for us for Christmas last year and we have brought it out for the first time this year. This train is something that, as a kid, I always wanted under my Christmas tree. I can't wait for my kids to one day wake up Christmas morning and see the tree all glowing and a the train humming around and around. Maybe someday, when we have space, we can add to our train set and have our own train room just like all the Yoder men have.
Also, for those that were helping us look, we have just found the perfect "Our First Christmas" ornament. It's of Mr. and Mrs. Snowman sharing there first Christmas. I tried to get a quality ornament hoping it will look good every year we hang it on the tree. Something to remind us of our Christmas's past.
I have included pictures of our Christmas train and our ornament for you to see.
I was hoping people might want to share some Christmas memories on there own blog. If anyone has memories of there first Christmas together with there spouse.
Any Christmas traditions that you may do every year? We look forward to starting our own traditions and also keeping some that our families have given us.
I can't wait to hear all your stories!!!
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We usually read the Luke version of the Christmas story or some such rendering of it. My dad tries to keep it creative and do his own version. His blog shows one of the last stories he wrote up for Christmas.
Jay and I moved our mattress out to our Christmas tree and slept near/under our first Christmas tree. It made it special and romantic.
Rena and I slept on the floor near our first Christmas tree on Siebenthaler Ave in Dayton in 1980.
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