MERRY AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS!

We want to wish everyone a very Merry and blessed Christmas from the Provenzano household. We pray that you all enjoy the season and remember our Savior who was born so that He may die for us sins, giving us the hope of eternal life in heaven. If you are travelling, please travel safe...enjoy your time with family and friends. May God richly bless you this season and this coming year.

A funny little story about the season. Elizabeth LOVES baby Jesus and baby Moses. They are by far her favorite parts to read in the Bible. Well, she continues to hear songs on the radio and asks, "Mom, they are singing about baby Jesus, right?" "Yes, Elizabeth, they are." "Mom, baby Jesus isn't an adult, he is a baby." We had to work on the fact that BABY Jesus didn't die on the cross for us, that Jesus grew into an adult and than died on the cross. Well, now she is still convinced that Jesus is a baby right now. Try rationalizing with a three year the concept that we just are remembering when Jesus was born during this time of year, that He is actually in heaven waiting for us to meet him someday. She is convinced that He is in the stable right now. It didn't help that at church they had a manger scene in their program with a real baby playing the baby Jesus. She was CONVINCED without a doubt that it was him! (even though it was really the baby brother of one of her Sunday school friends.) We had soup supper after the program and she was in absolute AWE because we sat with the family and she proceeded to say, "MOM, look we get to sit by baby Jesus!" Simple minds and simple faith...faith that I guess we all need to have.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

My Baby Mama Tum a Couple of Days Ago

Here it is just a couple of days ago...continuing to grow, praise God!

Christmas Program at Church

We had a little Christmas program at church the other night and the girls both participated. It was sweet and such a great reminder of the true meaning of this blessed season.

Our Gingerbread House Creation

The Cupcake Maker

One of the only things that Elizabeth had on her "wish list" was a cupcake maker. As you can tell, she LOVES it and we have been doing a lot of cupcake making (in the microwave mind you) these past couple of weeks. The flavor choices, chocolate and "vallinna" as she would say!

Winter Debut at Debut Dance

The girls had a little mini informal dance recital this past weekend. Santa made a visit there as well.

Decorating the tree and an early visit from Santa

Here we are decorating our tree...our decorated tree...opening gifts from an early visit from Santa...

After cutting the tree, we had to go sledding on the hill at the cemetary across the way!

Despite the crazy wind chill, the girls thought it would be fun to check out a hill on their sled that was across the way from the tree farm. At one point they got going so fast and Matt was supposed to be stopping them, but he got a little distracted and they ended up bailing instead before they hit the fence. Oops!

Getting the tree in the house

So, it was another feat to get the tree IN the house. Here are some pictures from that. We only ended up breaking a door jam in the process. In one of the pictures you will see Matt standing behind the tree before we stood it straight up. You get the picture as far as how FAT this tree is!