Marriage Proposals and Celebrating the Coming of our Savior

I walked into Macy's bedroom this evening, and here is what I found:

Macy is quite the little dancer.

And her favorite dancing partner is Daddy.

So here's where the "marriage proposal" comes in. I happened to snap this picture right as Macy says to Daddy, "I wanna marry you Daddy." 

Look how sweet her face is while she's asking him to marry her.
The picture was a little blurry, but it is too sweet not to post. 

Sunday evening we began our favorite Christmas Tradition, Advent. We take the month of December to celebrate the coming of our Savior. We've been doing Advent each Christmas season for about 6 years and it just keeps getting better as the kids get older and can understand more of the glories of our God coming as a Man to be our Savior. Each evening we sing Christmas songs and read Scriptures that prepare our hearts to truly celebrate the Savior's birth. It's been neat to have Marian read the passages this year and Macy is grasping so much more.

These next pictures I took while the girls were praying. They truly melt my heart...

Macy's prayer tonight was thanking God for the earth
and for sending His Son to die on the cross. 

Marian's prayer was thanking God for the Bible. 

As you can see, our girls absolutely LOVE Advent.
It really is a special time for us as a family.

Blowing out the candle after we sing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus.