thankful thursdays {16}

can you believe this is the last thursday in 2010? sheesh.
my christmas season was absolutely wonderful...
filled with family, friends, love, and laughter.
i cannot believe it has already come and gone,
but I'm so thankful for the light and joy this season brings.

well, here we are... my last little list of thankfulness for 2010

silly sister moments

learning how to make chocolate pies with nana
$30 christmas gift exchange
the history of redemption
time for reading, journaling & craftiness
snow!
baking. baking. baking.
cake balls (um... i mean, cake poppers)
a fun get together with good friends
a beautiful christmas eve service
fun family traditions
video chatting with jo/mo on christmas (sure do miss them)
celebrating my beautiful momma's birthday
pulling a little joke on said birthday
making paula dean's buttermilk spice cake for my madre
late night chats
eating lots of yummy food
leaving on a jet plane
lots of lazy days and movie watching
celebrating the birth of my savior

This is Christmas, the real meaning of it: God loving, searching, giving himself to us; man needing, receiving, giving himself to God. Redemption's glorious exchange of gifts, without which we cannot live, without which we cannot give to those we love anything of lasting value. This is the meaning of Christmas, the wonder and the glory of it. - Ruth Bell Graham

Hope your Christmas was filled with lots of blessings!