Christmas has come and gone. I am in the slump of missing the holidays. It brings me such joy planning and organizing traditions for our family of 4. I love how magical the holiday is. We started some new traditions this year....hoping to bring the magic and celebration to our home annually during this wonderful season.
Some traditions:
- Read Christmas stories daily from post Thanksgiving-Christmas. We read a Advent book every night at bedtime with Zion/Kiyah this year. We will bring it out every year.
- Go Christmas light looking/ do a Scavenger Hunt for Christmas lights. We went with our friends this year and had Christmas lights in the van and everything. We made popcorn "pop-pop" and got yummy holiday drinks and Hot Chocolate for the toddlers. It was Zi's first and she loved it. She said, "Dis so yummy Mommy. Tank You." We cruised around for almost 3 hours looking for blue icicle lights, manger scenes, Rudolph, Mickey Mouse, Santa etc. It was a blast.
- Make Jesus a birthday cake- this year we made Cake Pops on Christmas Eve.
(watching the movie with my girls....)
- Buy the girls Christmas jammies and a new Christmas movie to watch. This year we bought Santa Paws, it has been playing too much in the Cass Casa.
- Make cheesy potato soup on Christmas eve
- go to Christmas Eve service at our church.
- For gifts we did a new thing...The girls got 5 gifts from us: something they need, want, wear, read, and homemade. I thought it was a fun way to keep the gifts thoughtful/simple.
- For the last gift, we put a string on the tree that Zion had to follow through the rooms of our house to her big present. We hid a bike in the bathtub:) She loved it.
- Decorate the girls room for the holidays.
- pick out gifts (toys the girls have) and give them to a friend. "It is better to give than receive".
- and of course, there were lots of crafting and baking around here. What are your traditions?
Zi/Ki on Thanksgiving...so presh.
making Reindeer art with Kiyah's feet.
Zion making a Christmas tree with her hands.
the finished product.
I caved and let the girls meet Santa. We have the best Santa in our mall. I used to do his hair back in the day. Zion told him, "I want Dora and Kiyah wants Barney." well, right. :)
Christmas eve pix of our family. I loved the girls dresses....I got Zion's last year at Gap-Clearance. Kiyah's is from TJ Maxx to match sister pie.
headbands are Etsy.
Jammies.... the girls playing in our bed on Christmas eve. love.
got them monogrammed plates on Zulily. the best.
Zi holding her grandma dolly.
Zion and I got new hair pretties.
Christmas day we headed over to Red Wing for some celebrating with my family. We had a great time with good food and relaxing. The grandkids couldn't wait to open their gifts. Aunt Chels got Kiyah a matching bag from LL Bean like her sisters. I love these.
Andy and I got my parents "pop phones" for their IPhones. They are retro and great.
On the 28th, we headed over to Stevens Point to hit up some Cass time. We had Lasanga and celebrated Uncle Mike's bday. It was fun. Zion, once again, loved the presents.
Katie and Zi.
Grandpa Jim
Unky Ryan and Grandma with the girls.
Zion was pumped to get dvd player for our car rides. Halleju-. I am happy.
Blessed to have a healthy family and amazing parents/sibs on both sides.
Blessed to be able to celebrate freely Jesus' birthday.
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