12/21/2025
Merry Christmas Sunday 🎄❤️💒
It wasn’t until I moved to Utah that I learned that “Christmas Sunday” family pictures are a thing 🤷🏻♀️ Today my feed is full of beautiful families in Sunday best, testimonies of Christ, and gratitude for His birth—and I’m grateful to add my own 💛 I usually stick to the science side of things here, but I truly believe science and faith together make one beautiful whole.
Our Christmas program opened with a husband-wife duet of “Mary, Did You Know?” Being pregnant this Christmas season (pregnancy #7, baby #6 I’ll carry to term), it brought tears to my eyes. Pregnancy is sacred, especially at Christmastime. As a human, I’ve never felt closer to my Savior and Heavenly Parents than when I’ve had the opportunity to carry and bear children—and to witness the many miracles, small and large, that make it possible.
Then my kids went up to sing “Go Tell It on the Mountain” with all of the other children. My oldest carried my youngest, my second oldest held hands with my fourth. Most days there’s a lot of noise and chaos, but every once in a while I get these sweet glimpses of the kind, thoughtful, loving people they’re becoming. And singing that triumphant song together—what a blessing to live in a time and place where we can boldly “go tell it on the mountain, that Jesus Christ was born.”
And the other pictures… I asked for “just 20 quick pictures” after church. My oldest had the same sad face in every single one, so I asked ChatGPT to make him smile… instead it replaced him entirely. 🤣 I tried to swap him with another picture of him, and for some reason it swapped the whole family and we all got a good laugh! 💛🤭
