A Great time of Year

Up until this coming Christmas, I've always done Christmas morning with my parents. Just lucked out that way, I guess. So this year will be a whole new start to our family’s Christmas J

Upon getting married, I asked my husband what traditions he did that he would love to continue, and combined it with my favorites.

These are some of the things we like to do:

-         We decorate the day after Thanksgiving (if we didn't go anywhere) or the Sunday after (if we did J), which we let our kids do some of the hanging of ornaments, as they are able. This year we even got a train for the tree!

-         We make treats to give to our friends, and my oldest gets to help.

-         We go caroling. We’ve always done it with Ed’s “2^nd Family”, but since we don’t live in Colorado anymore, we will just have to find new friends to go with!

-         We open one present on Christmas Eve, usually something like a book or pajamas.

-         We have a large breakfast on Christmas morning and a simpler dinner. We only look at our stockings before breakfast, and unwrap our presents afterward.

-         My girls are into Hot Wheels, which is a toy we think is pretty gender-neutral, so we give them a new one in their stockings J

-         There’s always the ol’ “Take a picture with Santa”  which we do at our ward Christmas party (Santa at the mall is a rip off)… this year’s is rumored to be Hawaiian… imagine that…

Mele Kalikimaka Everyone!

christmas traditions

I love to listen to christmas music, and also sing it. As for traditions we get ornaments in our stockings every year. Its something my parents started in 1988. So they have continued it on with our spouses or significant others and our children. She also has quilted a stocking for them every year. Another thing I like to do is go driving around looking at christmas lights. Also for the last few years since we are now alumni of institute choir I like to go visit and sing some of their songs they are learning. Its such a wonderful time of year. One last thing I like to do is watch the fun movies they put on Fox family they call it the 25 days of christmas.

Since this past week was probably busy (myself included), we're going to continue the current topic for another week :-)