Apples to Apples.

Besides my birthday, Christmas is my favorite holiday of the entire year!

1. ITS JESUS' BIRTHDAY!
2. There's family all around
3. Presents aren't too shabby...
4. There's always lots of laughter.

But I do really love Christmas. I could completely feel the spirit of Jesus working in my grandma's house today as we all sat around the kitchen table and played apples to apples while laughing until tears rolled down our cheeks. It reminded me of those classic movies where in the end everyone is smiling and there is a perfect fairytale ending, as the camera slowly zooms out and you see the family laughing together through the front room window.

I think what I enjoyed most about today was how close I felt to my sisters. I think about them constantly, even if it may not seem like it sometimes, and to be together on the holidays means so much to me. It felt like we had never been apart for all this time, like nothing had changed, when change is the only constant thing in this world we live in.

2 Samuel 22:3 

    "my God is my rock, in whom I find protection.
   He is my shield, the power that saves me,
      and my place of safety.
   He is my refuge, my savior,
      the one who saves me from violence."

ForeverLove,
          SamanthaLynn