Christmas is such a special time of year for our family...it is a time of celebrating the birth of Jesus and remembering that family is so very important. I know that these years are so magical for our sweet family so I try very hard to make them special.
On December 6th, we write our letters to Santa and put them in our stocking. Santa takes our letters, our elf Ron appears, and the children enjoy a little treat in their stockings.
We did so many fun things to enjoy the holiday season this year...we made gingerbread men during preschool with the littles and then, the bigs helped us to decorate them!
We made reindeer hats and made a special ornament for preschool.
Aren't they the cutest little reindeers?? They truly are so close!
We enjoyed our trip to the Gaylord and Great Wolf Lodge with the cousins (see previous post). And we baked cookies for family, neighbors and the hubs' work place. I like to do a platter of cookies for each department so they know that they are appreciated. This year, B and I made sugar cookies and they were good and fun to make!
Finally, we celebrate with a church service on Christmas Eve, setting out cookies for Santa, and going to bed to wait for Santa. And our kids must have been very good this year because he was certainly very generous! Christmas day was full of opening gifts and eating our yummy beef stew.
Reading Twas the Night Before Christmas...
Cookies for Santa...
Matching pajamas...
I always take a picture of each child with their gifts so I can easily remember what they received so we can write thank you notes! I always want each person to know how much it means to us that they remembered us on this holiday!
And we also supported one of our favorite charities for Christmas- it is all about giving!!!
Merry Christmas!!!
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