The Christmas season always starts off with decorating the home. This year I noticed our fireplace is brim full of stockings...super fun to have a home full of children. And this year Lucy got to put the star on the tree. It's always an argument who's turn it is- haha.
My all time favorite tradition of the year begins December 1st...the gifts of togetherness advent calendar. Every day the girls take turns picking from the calendar to see what we are going to do that day. Simple things like make snowflakes, Christmas light scavenger hunt, wish cousins merry Christmas, gift to someone in need and a hot chocolate bar. I love that it is simple but brings us together each season.
At our Relief Society Christmas dinner, Emma and her friends played their cellos for us. It was fun to hear Emma perform in front of others and that two of her friends play the cello too!
Reese and Emma got invited by their friends to go to Luminaria at Thanksgiving Point. They had a fabulous time.
This is our favorite two homes in all of Utah County during Christmas time. The first home is decked out in lights from head to toe- giant trees to tiny bushes. It is AMAZING. Then the home next to it has a lit up sign that says, "DITTO" with an arrow pointing to the home next door. SOOOO funny!!
Lucy's kindergarten Christmas program was super cute and fun we got to attend!
A new thing we started which will hopefully turn into a tradition each year is "Christmas Around the World." Emma learned about how the people in Mexico celebrate Christmas and so we got tamales for dinner and other Mexican type food (and real authentic candy that no one liked because they add chili powder to EVERYTHING) and we had a presentation from Emma and ended with breaking open a piñata! Hopefully we will do another country next year!
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