If there is one thing {I love} about Christmas......

It's the movies. :)

 I LOVE movies! :) as you all know. But Christmas movies seem to be that much more exciting! :) I see them every year and yet I bust a gut every time I watch them. :) Here are my favorites. I will start with

Number 6: Jingle All the Way.

This isn't the best Christmas movie ever, But i still like it. It has Arnold Schwarzenegger in it, and i still like it. :)

"They sit there and use subliminal messages to suck your children's' minds out! And I know what I'm talking about because I went to junior college for a semester and I studies psychology so I'm right in there, I know what's going on. They make the kids feel like garbage and you, the father, who's working 24/7 delivering mail so you can make an alimony payment to a woman that slept with everybody at the post office, but me! And then when you get the toy, it breaks and you can't fix it because it's little cheap plastic!"

"I'm not a pervert. I'm just looking for a Turbo Man Doll!"

Number 5:The Santa Clause Trilogy. :)
"This thing, you never know where it's been. A thousand malls! Well I hope you're happy, Comet. I hope you're happy, but most importantly, I hope the guy that lives here IS A TAILOR!"

"It is Santa. You Killed him!"

"The Santa Clause: In putting on the suit and entering the sleigh, the wearer waives any and all right to any previous identity, real or implied, and fully accepts the duties and responsibilities of Santa Claus, in perpetuity to which some time the wearer becomes unable to do so, by either accident or design."

"What about Santa's reindeer? Have you ever seen a reindeer fly?"

"Yes"

"Well, I haven't"

"Have you ever seen a million dollars?"
"No"

"Just because you cant see something, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist."

"Down the chimney? You want me to take the toys down the chimney into a strange house, IN MY UNDERWEAR?"

Number 4: The Grinch.
"What's that stench? It's fantastic!"

We're gonna die! We're gonna die! I'm going to throw up, and then I'm gonna die! Mommy, tell it to stop!"

"If you utter so much as one syllable, I'LL HUNT YOU DOWN AND GUT YOU LIKE A FISH! If you'd like to fax me, press the star key."

"And they'll feast, feast, feast, feast. They'll eat their who-pudding and rare who-roast beast. But that's something I just cannot stand in the least. Oh, no. I'M SPEAKING IN RHYME!"

"The nerve of those Whos. Inviting me down there- on such short notice! Even if I wanted to go my schedule wouldn't allow it. 4:00, Wallow in Self pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize; 6:30, dinner with me-I can't cancel that again; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing.... I'm booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9, i could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness. But what would I wear?"

Number 3: Elf.
"This place reminds me of Santa's Workshop! Expect it smells like mushrooms and everyone looks like they want to hurt me."

"Francisco! That's fun to say! Francisco.... Frannnncisco... Franciscooo."

"First we'll make snow angels for two hours, then we'll go ice skating, then we'll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookidough as fast as we can, and then we'll snuggle."

"I'm sorry I ruined your lives, and crammed eleven cookies into the VCR."

"Son of a NUTcracker!"

"I'm a cotton-headed ninnymoggins!"

Number 2: A Christmas Story.

"The snap of a few sparks, a quick whiff of ozone, and the lamp blazed forth in unparalleled glory."

"The heavenly aroma still hung in the house. But it was gone, all gone! No turkey! No turkey sandwiches! No turkey salad! No turkey gravy! Turkey hash! Turkey a la king! Or gallons of turkey soup. Gone, ALL GONE!"

"Oh! The theme I've been waiting for all my life. Listen to this sentence: 'A Red Ryder BB Gun with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time." Poetry, Sheer Poetry, Ralph! an A+!"

"Oh, no! 'You'll shoot your eye out!'"

"Those Icicles have been known to kill people."

and...

Number 1: National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

"Every time Catherine revved up the microwave, I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for about half an hour or so."

"Burn some dust here. Eat my rubber."

"We're kicking off our fun old fashion family Christmas by heading out into the country in the old front-wheel drive sleigh to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape and select the most important of Christmas Symbols."

"Hey, Kids, I heard on the news that an airline pilot spotted Santa's sleigh on its way in from New York City."

"You serious, Clark?"

"Oh, Eddie... If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am now."

"Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?"

"And why is the carpet all wet, *TODD*?" "I don't *KNOW*, Margo!"

"Hey Griswold. Where do you think you're gonna put a tree that big?"

"Bend over and I'll show you!"

"Oh, I was just smelling-smiling. I was just blouse-browsing. Well, I guess it just wouldn't be the Christmas shopping season if the store were any less hooter than they, HOTTER than they are."

Merry Christmas

Happy Holidays.

Until Next Time..

Peace & Blessings.

{Reflections}

"And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we wrtie according to the prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins."

-2 Nephi 25:26

I'm pretty sure that i already told you this, but this semester I had the privilege of attending an Old Testament Institute class. One of the assignments that Sister Seamons gave us was a "Reflections of Christ Project." I'm not going to lie, initially, I wasn't going to do one. 

Then, one day I went to the Wednesday Devotional at the Institute and the musical number was a beautiful arrangement of "I Know that My Redeemer Lives."

I have always loved this song. Totally one of my favs. 

So then, I decided to do this.

Pretty much, I listed every reason why He lives from the song and put it on once piece of wood. 

Then on the back...

I wrote a scripture and a small testimony on each reason why He lives. 

And as I was doing this project, I realized something. It has always been easy for me to think of Jesus Christ as my Savior. I don't why, it just has. But, as I was doing this project, I realized for the first time, and thought of Him as my brother. 

I think that it is totally incredible, that I have a brother that loves me so much, that He would die for me. And live again to help me make it back to our Father in Heaven. 

I Know that my Redeemer Lives. 

I love Him.

I trust Him.

Until Next time...

Peace & Blessings.