Saturday, December 13, 2008

Holiday Cheer

I love this time of year. I love listening to Christmas songs, decorating the house and tree, and baking sweets for loved ones. I also really like traditions. Gabe and I have both carried our own family traditions into each others lives and will continue to practice them. I also like the idea of starting new family traditions that we can do as our own family. Here are some that we've started:
  • Bake sugar cookies and custom design one of your own
  • Buy a new ornament for our tree picked out together - maybe this will be changed to make our own family christmas ornament
  • Name our christmas tree - last year it was fred the douglas fir, this year we have scarlet
  • Added this year -- tour our neighborhood holiday lights on our bikes - super fun!
  • have a gingerbread house build off
That's all I can think of so far. What are your family traditions, new or old?
because i teach preschool we have these AWESOME neon food colors, however also because i teach preschool, our "normal" colors are at school...Our stockings from both sides of the family -- wheeler side are the large ones, wards side are the smaller ones in the middle. Gabe's grandma has the Wheeler ones made, my aunt made my little one and I made gabe's little one. so fun!Scarlet

1 comment:

aho girls said...

oh i miss you two. you are so lucky to have each other and i'm so happy that you enjoy your time together and do things around the house together (your traditions,etc). i miss you so much!

i already told shannon my new christmas tradition, but here it is. we have our jesse tree (which the ornaments were MADE by uncle eric and aunt becca and they ROCK), the girls loved putting on a new ornament each night, and listening to the story that accompanied it. the gifts that go under the jesse tree are oxfam gifs - http://www.oxfam.org/ - or some other form of gift to other people. this year jewel and anika's gift was 2 school uniforms to a lukcy child. joe's gift was hiv/aids testing and education