Just the Two of Us

Chase and I will be staying in Arizona this year to spend Christmas with just each other! We are excited and bummed at the same time. It'll be nice to have time with Chase home a lot (he gets several days off), but since I have a part time job AND a real job now, who knows what my hours will be like. Not that I'm complaining! We decided it would put us in a much better position to be financially wise and good stewards of what God has given us rather than purchase plane tickets this year, especially since Chase is flying out this weekend to be in a friend's wedding in Charleston, SC and we will both be flying back to Indiana for my sister's wedding in March aaaaand I will also be flying out to Indiana in February.

We weren't going to get a Christmas tree, until we stopped by Lowe's and discovered they were 50% off...because they were dying in the heat. Lol. So different than Indiana. We found a good one though - for $12 bucks. We gave it some sugar water and it perked right up. It feels WAYYY more like Christmas now (isn't that pathetic? as if it's about a tree.) However, we are grateful, and also pretty pumped about some cute (READ: glittery) new ornaments.

Chase gave me a budget on the ornaments (let's be honest, he didn't really care what they looked like), so I made the executive decision to forfeit a nice, large tree topper in order to get more glittery ornaments. Only 23.5% of all our ornaments are completely free of any glitter....yes, I did the math. Also, Chase had two stockings from when he was younger (and often had BOTH filled on Christmas), and I left mine in Indiana to stay with my family because, as this first Christmas without all her children is going to be hard enough on my mom, I didn't want her to also be staring at my empty stocking spot all season long! SO an easy fix to this was to just tape my name on Chase's extra stocking. WaaaLaa! (also shout out to Melinda for the wonderful tree skirt:)

We've already seen the benefits of a quiet Christmas season. We've had some time together to really praise God and think about the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. That God had such grace on the people He created that He would send a savior into the world. That he would allow Chase and I to be born into a time after Jesus came that we may know God personally, and not only that, but that God also called Chase and I to follow Christ while we're here on this earth, and gave us the Spirit. It will be a really special Christmas, being together alone for our first one.