TRUE GIFTS

"We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts may be part of ourselves—giving of the riches of the heart and mind—and therefore more enduring and of far greater worth than presents bought at the store.

"Of course, among the greatest of gifts is the gift of love....

"Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love seeks to give rather than to get. Charity towards and compassion for others is a way to overcome too much self-love" (James E. Faust, "A Christmas with No Presents," Ensign, Dec 2001, 2–6).

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND WE PRAY THAT YOUR FAMILY HAS A WONDERFUL 2009, AND THAT IT WILL BE BRIGHT WITH WONDERFUL AND AMAZING EXPERIENCES! KNOW WE ALL LOVE YOU VERY MUCH AND MISS YOU EVEN MORE!

MERRY CHRISTMAS




Hey everyone!
Merry Christmas from all of us here in the Gleed Family! May you have a safe and wonderful holiday season. We are all grateful for the special people each and every one of you are! Enjoy our pretty tree!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

All of the snow you see here, is what fell in the past 24 hours...I scraped over a foot of snow off of our cars! EWE...and to make matters worse...we are in FOR MORE UGH!!!


I guess we'll have our white christmas after all! (But thank goodness I only have to endure 1 Soda Springs winter!!!!)

Well, late last night we finally got our "BIG" snow storm...in one area in the mountains they got over 4 feet of snow...everyone was out and about on their snow machines!
I'm not sure how much I am looking forward to the weather they have here...it's a whopping 13 degrees right now and dropping ewe!
Doesn't it just want you to come to Idaho and freeze your tush off GRRRR....
Well, if anything else it FINALLY looks like December! Everyone be safe and happy holidays!


Well, after buying a cute little hat for my cat I tried it on. This is the only shot I could get! I was laughing too hard to do anymore after the reaction I got from the squirt! :O)
Merry Christmas Everybody!

Love you guys
Gillaire (and Charlie)

O.k. people I finally found my dream camera...so if anyone is loaded this Christmas I would love you as I'm lmao where I know that we are all broke :(
Everyone who knows me, all know how much I LOVE to take pictures and how much I love photography. This is a new one, and is what I'm looking for and a step closer to a professional camera!!! Gee it's only like 700 bucks...:(
As soon as I'm settled I'm going to take photography classes, so I'm pretty psyched! Now if only......:)



COOL HUH!!!!

Oh my, it's 2 a.m. and I peak outside and what did I find...

IT'S SNOWING!!!!


This time of year we all need to get in touch with our inner child, when dreaming and feeling like the sky was the limit with our imaginations.
I love this story where someone allowed a little girl to let her dreams soar, even if it was believing in a jolly old man in a red suit.
I know it's the time of year to remember the birth of Christ, but I think it's also a time to let the stress of life go for a short time and dream.


A famous letter from Virgina O'Hanlon to the editorial of The New York Sun, first printed in 1897.

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

Dear Editor

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O'Hanlon





Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

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