La Navidad

Well its that time of year again where everyone is expected to be happy and cheerful and to love their neighbors. Its Christmas, its a good time of a year. This is the first one since ive been home from my mission and its cool being with the family, but i miss visiting families and other people too. it was really fun. anyway, as you get older the Christmas season seems to fade with all the commercial-ism that it brings along. people tend to get focused on all the wrong things, what they are going to get loved ones, what they are going to recieve from those loved ones. Recently my Granpa passed away at his home, and this kind of threw in a new feel to the Christmas season. This was the only grandparent that i really had a relationship with, the others either passed away when i was too young to remember them all that well or like "Maa Ma" lived too far away to be able to visit with them. so this was closer to me than usual. it got me to think more about the actual season of Christmas, not only about Christ and what does for us, but of love and family relationships, and what i want for my family when that time comes. to really beat at home the meaning of Christmas and starting family traditions and what not. well thats all i really have right now, dont even know if this even makes that much since to you guys, it kinda seems like i jumped around everywhere. oh well