Why Celebrate Christmas?

It's the most wonderful time of the year...to quote one of the all time classic Christmas songs. I really do like this time of the year. Sometimes it just gives me the warm & fuzzies. Turn on the radio & catch some of the Christmas classics...Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald & the like. I love it. (I can do with out New Kids on the Block, Mariah Carey & such). I didn't really care much for the whole Christmas decorations until my son was born. He's still upset because we don't have lights on the outside of our house.
I guess the whole Christmas thing has always kind of confused me a bit. It ranks up there with people celebrating their birthdays. I don't really get it. Why do we celebrate our birthdays when we never really had anything to do with the whole birthing process? Kids ask your parents about what I mean. God did the whole creation part & made sure everything went well, while here on earth, your Mom did most of the work, while your Dad had his part. We just felt the pressure to move on out & I know some people that would probably wouldn't have moved out without that pressure.
Getting back to Christmas, no where in the Bible does it say remember my birthday. (Check it out). It says remember my death, burial & Resurrection. Hold on. Don't get me wrong. The whole virgin birth was a wonderful miracle of God. Most impressive, but when you look over the history of the Scriptures, God was pretty good at the whole miraculous signs and wonders thing. After all the world was created by Him, so I think He has pretty good control of the whole earthly realm. It was a fulfillment of prophecy, I know. Which makes the birth of Christ very important, but it would have just ranked up there as a great miracle without the death, burial & Resurrection. That was the purpose of the life of Jesus. I guess I just wonder why Easter seems to play second fiddle to the birth of Jesus. Without His death, burial & Resurrection, we would still be sacrificing lambs in the synagogues. There would be no "New Testament" church. Most people know the holiday was created to counter the Pagan holidays of the Winter Solstice. Not that it is a bad thing to remember something as Miraculous as the birth of the Son of God. JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON, BUT THE SEASON IS NOT THE REASON FOR JESUS.
Merry Christmas to all & to all a Good Night.