I love Christmas songs!!!! I love them for many reasons. They elicit feelings of joy, memories of childhood anticipation and hopes of snowy white winter wonderlands. But the thing that I personally love the most is that all the world, knowingly or not, is singing about the Savior, Jesus Christ! I love turning on the radio or walking into the department store and hearing Away in A Manger, Joy to the World or Noel and whether other people are aware or not, they are hearing the message of the gospel... the true Christmas Story. At other times of the year when songs stick in my head I get annoyed at the lyrics that just won't go away. But when "Joy to the world, the Lord has come. Let earth receive her King" sounds over and over in my head, I am thankful for the reminder during all of the business of what a tremendous gift we were given and what a gracious God we have.
Of course the other part of what I love about Christmas are all of the fun family activities! This weekend we were able to enjoy one such activity in downtown Franklin, the Charles Dickens Festival (or festibal as Addie says!). We walked around in the cold and saw Christmas decorations, people dressed up, farm animals and dead squirrels. Yes... you read that correctly, dead squirrels. Notice in the picture below that the kids are captivated, not with the life size manger scene, but the small fury creature laying prone on the ground. Well, I guess we just do what we can as parents to celebrate the season and to make memories, but sometimes it's the small fury things in life that captivate our attention more! :-) Anyways, I hope you enjoy the few pictures we were able to catch. We most definitely enjoyed our time at the "festibal" and have other fun activities planned. Shhhhh....don't tell the girls, but Daddy will be taking them to see the Nutcracker this weekend!!! You can count on more pictures to follow.
Of course the other part of what I love about Christmas are all of the fun family activities! This weekend we were able to enjoy one such activity in downtown Franklin, the Charles Dickens Festival (or festibal as Addie says!). We walked around in the cold and saw Christmas decorations, people dressed up, farm animals and dead squirrels. Yes... you read that correctly, dead squirrels. Notice in the picture below that the kids are captivated, not with the life size manger scene, but the small fury creature laying prone on the ground. Well, I guess we just do what we can as parents to celebrate the season and to make memories, but sometimes it's the small fury things in life that captivate our attention more! :-) Anyways, I hope you enjoy the few pictures we were able to catch. We most definitely enjoyed our time at the "festibal" and have other fun activities planned. Shhhhh....don't tell the girls, but Daddy will be taking them to see the Nutcracker this weekend!!! You can count on more pictures to follow.
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