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1. Mormon Mommy Bloggers 

2.  King Henry Apartments 

3. BYU Rotary Club Food Drive 

4. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Utah.  Snow covers the ground, Christmas trees are up and people are beginning to shop for Christmas gifts.

Families across Utah County gather together for this Christmas season to celebrate traditions.  Some families drive around neighbors to look at lights.  Others attend Temple Square to view the lights and visit the Christus.  While some go out in the wilderness to find the perfect family Christmas tree.  

Brooke Holt, a senior studying advertising, enjoys the holiday season to be with her family.  Holt enjoys being with her family to celebrate established traditions. She plans after finals to drive home to California to visit her family.

"Christmas means to me the birth of our Savior.  Then when I think about it also it's gifts, family and skiing for two weeks," she said. 

Many would agree that Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of Christ.  With the demands of consumerism, however, many forget what the season is about.   

From Debate.org an anonymous writer wrote that consumerism is beginning to take over family values.  

"This concept has been a steady deterioration by our country. The spiritual aspects of our core and traditions are slowly being eroded away."  

Some families to combat this new trend try to avoid making gifts the focal point of the holiday.  They do this by reading the scriptures, attending church and spending quality time together.