Category Archives: Family Traditions

Holiday Traditions – Baking Christmas Cookies + Christmas Caroling

Yes, yes, I realize that it is January. What can I say, I’m a tad behind on blogging. So this is the makeup post with the remainder of our holiday adventures! Anyway, I REALLY wanted to share these images of us making Christmas cookies. You see, we make these cookies EVERY year… it’s a Solar…

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Holiday Traditions – Decorate the tree

On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, Josh pulled all the Christmas ornaments and decorations out from underneath the under-the-stairs-storage area. We strung lights on our tree. Then we put up the beaded garland. And THEN, we attempted the tricky task of trying to actually hang ornaments on a real tree. The kids fussed because the tree…

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Holiday Traditions – Tree chopping

On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we drove out to Pumpkins & Pines to pick out our tree. Of course, it was COLD and misting. We knew we wouldn’t have another opportunity anytime soon to get our tree, so we braved the bad weather. The lot of trees was HUGE, but we didn’t have to go…

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Holiday Traditions – 2011 Ornaments

Thanks to Carl {the elf}, we had an eventful Thanksgiving weekend! On Friday, he told us to pick out new ornaments for 2011 (this is a tradition we started the year Max was born… each kid gets to pick a new ornaments every year). On Saturday, he had us go chop down our very first…

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Holiday Traditions – Plaza Lighting Ceremony

As you know, this year, we started a new tradition. Every day between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Carl {the elf} will visit us and leave us an envelope with an activity to do as a family. On Thanksgiving, he told us to go see the Plaza lighting ceremony (with hot chocolate & Topsy’s popcorn!). I have…

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