Busy Little Elf!

I know I am far from being the only person that is busy this time of year, but it sometimes feels like it! There are so many things I want wanted to do and make for Christmas this year, but with family parties, birthday parties, extended family parties, church parties,  oh and did I mention an ER trip(Yes it was my first, and quite traumatic!), I just ran out of time.

Here is our tough little lady when we got there...

She wasn't even scared! (I was)

Here she is after, a little upset...Poor baby. But no stitches, YAY!

I was really stressed about it until I spent some much needed quite time this morning in prayer. I realized that it doesn't matter what gets done, or doesn't get done, I should be thankful that I have an AMAZING family to spend Christmas with. And they don't care if our wreath isn't quite straight, or there are still ornaments in boxes that didn't make it to the tree, or the bows on the presents aren't as pretty as I would have liked. They only care that we spend time together rejoicing in Jesus' birth, drinking hot chocolate around the tree and singing our favorite Christmas carols. So I'm going to enjoy the rest of this week, and if a dessert or two doesn't get made, and we have leftovers for dinner everynight this week I'm going to laugh and thank the Lord. And you should too! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and get to spend so much needed quality time with your family also. See you all after the New Year!

Oh here are a few pics I wanted to share of "The First Ever Phillips Family Gingerbread House" (yeah say that one five times fast:)

She was saying "CHEESE"! Silly girl!

Merry Christmas Y'all,