Kristen and me on Christmas Day at her parents’ house…

Despite everything she says, I still insist that she is far too sweet, fun and beautiful for a guy like me to be blessed with 🙂

I am feeling led to say something here. That this Christmas was, for more reasons than I can possibly count, THE best Christmas that I have been able to enjoy in a very long, long time.

It was the first Christmas that I have had without Mom. In fact, it was a year ago today that we had her funeral. And in a lot of ways this was a trying and difficult year in other aspects as well.

But when I see the person I was a year ago, the time that I was going through then… and then now, how far God has brought me in that time, how He has blessed me more than I possibly deserve. And then how Kristen had promised that this was going to be a wonderful Christmas…

It was. It really was.

And Lord willing, next Christmas will be even better 😉