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This week it is all about our Traditions! Here are a few of ours:
1. Open one gift on Christmas Eve
2. Buy a new ornament that represents something we have done during the year. These are last year's ornaments:
I have made an 8x8 album of all these ornaments (and a few others) that I just add a page to each year so that when I'm long gone the girls will know which ornaments are special and why! This year we are going to Disneyland to get one again! Hopefully they have a nice tree topper that we can purchase too!
3. Go look at the Christmas lights and drink hot chocolate.
4. We write letters to Santa (and he writes back, thank you Canada Post) - and leave him cookies and chocolate milk.
5. Cut down our own tree
7. A treasure hunt. It starts with an envelope on the tree and the clues are hidden all over the house! As they get older it will get harder and when they hit the teen years I'm going to use a compass! This keeps them busy and the 'treasure' is always some candy and something to do (game/book etc).
8. Make Christmas crafts - we are craft crazy! This is the tissue tree we made last year! The girls were 2 and 3 so they got tired of this one about 1/2 way through so I got to finish it LOL!
9. Send Christmas cards - this is last year's card (i made 50 of these paper piecings - phew!)
10. Have a Christmas photo shoot for a picture to put in the cards! This year it was soooo cold but I wanted to see their outfits so I made them take off their coats. I put the camera on burst and shot off as many pics as I could before they started to turn blue! This is one of the outtakes!
I totally bribed them with a candy cane for after the shoot too!
If you want to see more about our traditions you can jump to my previous post about this subject here! There are lots of scrapbook pages to see!
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