MY JOY IS FULL ❤️

My heart is overflowing with happiness today

and my JOY is FULL!

My family was all together last night 

as we SKYPED with our missionary in the Philippines!!

He was not able to Skype on Christmas day

because there was a super typhoon that hit

his mission right on Christmas.....

He has been without power for almost two weeks,

but was able to get through to us and boy was the wait worth it!

Thank heavens for technology, we were able to be together

from the Philippines, to Pennsylvania, to Utah, to Arizona!!

Elder Baker is happy, healthy and has a the wonderful spirit of 

Christ with him and is such a good missionary!  We are so proud of him

and the good work that he is doing sharing the message of Christ with 

the people in the Philippines!  We love our family, we are thankful

that our family can be ETERNAL!  And we are thankful that Dillon is

sharing the message that every family can have that same blessing!!

CHRISTMAS 2016 🎄

Christmas is always a super stressful time for me.

I never really like it.

That's just me being honest......

I have some goals for next year to like it better though!  

Like I really have set goals already of how I can make it better.

BUT......having my kids here with me, makes me the happiest person!

And I got to have everyone here except Dillon...and he has the BEST excuse!

I wouldn't want him anywhere but the Philippines right now, so 

having all of the rest of my family here for Christmas was my best present EVER!

Chris asked me what I wanted for Christmas, and I told him:

I just want my family to be together.

I got it.

We spent a lot of time together and it made my heart so happy.

I love the spirit of the Christmas season.

I love my Savior.  I love the gift of His life.

I'm thankful that Jesus Christ was born on this earth

and that we can celebrate His life, especially at Christmas, 

and that it makes people happy and makes people

want to be nice and help other people.

That makes me happy and makes the time of year better!!

I loved the #LightTheWorld campaign that the church did this year.

It truly helped me to feel the spirit more.  

We tried to serve more.  We helped more people by giving more.

That's what its supposed to be about anyway, right?

 in our Christmas Sunday Best...don't they look so cute?

Our CHRISTMAS EVE nativity scene is getting a little slim

looks like we need a few more grandkids to help out!

But the spirit felt when we read the scriptures together

is always the same no matter how many people are there.

I love this cute family and nativity!!

CHRISTMAS MORNING....

is always a crazy scene but we love it!!

I wouldn't have it any other way and I was so happy 

to have the little ones at our house this year to wake up to

look at this fun morning!

 Have you ever seen cuter Christmas buns?

 There's a happy Christmas!!

 A couple days before Christmas we made these fun Gingerbread houses

as a family.  We had so much fun...I love this tradition!!

 Jess & Cam WON the prize for the biggest mansion I think!