Traditions.....

It is my favorite time of year.....the holidays! I have been looking forward to this Christmas season because it is Baby Kendall's first Christmas! I have been so excited to start our own family's traditions that we can carry on. I am big on traditions because I think that it creates wonderful memories and something that binds the family together. I was wanting to start our traditions this year even though she will only be 9 months because I think it's best to start them as early as possible so as far back as they remember they will remember doing them - and plus there will be lots of pictures that they can look back on as well!!

Some of the traditions that we have started or will do this Christmas season.....

1. Stocking Stuffer: One of the stocking stuffers that we are planning on giving our kids every year is a snow globe and Kendall will be getting her first baby Mickey Mouse snow globe this year!!!

2. Decorating a new ornament each year and adding it to the tree

3. Decorating a different stocking each year....and as the kids get older then they will be able to personalize their stocking exactly the way they want. I came up with this idea because I thought that over the years as the kids grow up it could be a fun thing to get some stockings and a multitude of crafty items out and sit around the table and just let their creative juices flow as they create their special stocking that would represent them that year.

3. Opening one gift on Christmas Eve....pajamas

4. Baking a Birthday cake for Jesus on Christmas Day

These are just a few of our traditions....The lights, the music, the weather....I absolutely love everything about Christmas but my favorite is looking forward to the memories that we create each year!

~M~

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