We had a wonderful Christmas and we hope that all of you did as well. We’re busy recovering from Christmas and looking forward to the beginning of the new year and the adventures that it will hold for our family. That being the case, this is all the blogging that we’re going to do this week. We’ll be back at it soon, though!
As we approach Christmas, we thought we would share some of our Christmas traditions with you, as well as an interesting dynamic we had to go through when we had our first Christmas together. Last year as we were all three coming together for our first Christmas together, we had to decide what to do. We realized that all three of us had different Christmas traditions, and extended families and we can’t all be in three different places at once. Tami & Colton, since being married, would just take turns with their holidays with each family…but now what do we do with 3? Would we only see our extended
This time of year is such a whirlwind of activity, and I have discovered I’m not very good at documenting all the activities, events, and interesting moments. This week has been fun and busy! Sadie is loving putting a new sticker on her tree every day, as well as a fun activity to go with it. Our activity on Friday wasn’t planned, but we ended up needing to move the sheep to another field and that ended up being our family activity. Sadie loved going out with us and it was quite the adventure getting the sheep to leave the field they were in and find the new one
Christmas is always a fun time of year, but having kids for Christmas makes it even better! This year Sadie is really starting to be old enough to start getting into the magical fun of Christmas. I remember growing up and doing things like the 12 days of Christmas for other families in the neighborhood and how fun it was to doorbell ditch goodies to people. So this year I decided to try and do an advent calendar with activities we can do as we countdown to Christmas. It’s a little late getting started but I think I’m starting to get the hang of it now and it will
Christmas is one of my favorite holidays. I love the magic that surrounds it, the fun of Santa bringing gifts, presents, Christmas decorations, baking and eating delicious food, and especially the reminder of Jesus Christ’s birth. I’ve always enjoyed the nativity story. One of my family traditions, which is shared by many people, is acting out the nativity. I don’t know where it came from but my mom has a Christmas book full of Christmas stories and one of them is a script for the nativity. There’s a bit of narration, scriptures, and songs. My mom also has a fantastic dress up box and growing up we all loved