That Time Of The Year

Hey there everyone! It's been a while again since I've written a blog so I thought that I would take a moment and do one on this wonderful Wednesday morning. We are a little less than 16 days away from Christmas and it is that time of the year when we are all either starting or finishing up with plans for the holidays and decorations.

It's been a pretty crazy last few weeks and we are about to wrap up the decorations at home. We did get our tree up last week and it really looks great in the new house. I'm sure Kristine might get a picture or two up of the house before Christmas. We also were blessed to be able to travel to Raleigh to visit Kristine's sister and brother-in-law, and niece and nephew as well. It was a wonderful time and also difficult at the same time when we had to leave since we only get see them around once a year on average.

I wish we had more time and money to see the members of her family a whole lot more than we do but I guess we just have to be thankful for the time that we do have with our family when we can see them during this stage of our lives. I'm sure that every family across the country deals with emotions and feelings like this from time to time but the holidays do seem to make one reflect on things more than other times of the year. Again, I'm just thankful for all that we have been blessed with in our lives.

Work is going great and I am spending my days working inside of a giant present (literally) as a result of my crazy decorating idea for my cubical and the intense decorating that has been going on all across the building. There has been a competition here at work the past week for each section of the building to decorate their area and today it should all be done and ready to be judged. There are around 16 different areas in the building that have decorated by the individuals teams in those area and there is quit a bit of creativity and variety in every area. I wish you could be here to see it all. It looks great!

Kristine has been crazy busy with work at Belmont and her photography business (which is doing wonderfully and really taking off the ground). Also, I would say that just keeping up with me and being an awesome wife is more than a full time job itself. Hopefully she will be able to finally get some great rest over the course of her vacation time around Christmas and New Years. She deserves it!

Life is busy for sure these days but it is really nice to stop for a moment during the day and think and reflect on why we are all doing so much to decorate and celebrate the season. To think about our wonderful families and friends and how lucky we are to have all of them. And to know that God is in all of this and it all would mean nothing if he hadn't sent His son.

Those were a few of my thoughts as I have been going through the morning and I thought that I would take a moment to make sure that I reflected on them and to share them with everyone as well. I hope that your day and week is going great as well and that maybe this post will fill your heart with a little holiday cheer!