Steve's family always received small boxes of sugar cereal in their stockings for Christmas -- which they got to eat that morning. Here we are enjoying that tradition together.
A tradition we created together is with our Christmas stockings. Every year since our first Christmas we have added the date to our stockings. Our children will get their stockings on their first Christmas:)
Another Christmas tradition that we've done since we were very first married is to buy, or make a Christmas tree ornament that represents the year. Our first ornament was a gold dipped maple leaf that we bought on our honeymoon, to represent our marriage. The year we moved 3 times we bought a little toy truck and the year we bought our house we got a house ornament. This year LeeAnn made a scroll from paper and ribbon, to represent our year of paperwork (as in the adoption paperwork and also as a joke about Steve becoming a director at work:) We always hang these ornaments up in order, and then hang the current years up together.
Another fun, and practical, tradition LeeAnn has done since she was a kid was to take a picture sitting in front of all of the opened Christmas gifts. It's fun to look back and see what you received each year, as well as being able to remember who gave it to you and when you received it.
We love to see the Christmas light displays. We drive through the neighborhoods frequently during the holiday's to see what people have done; as well as going to the professional light displays -- like Temple Square and Festivals in city parks.
And of course spending lots of time together, and with family and friends, is the best part of the Christmas holidays! Here we are cutting into the Christmas turkey, doing gingerbread houses with LeeAnn's family, calling our parents on a Christmas day when we were too far away to travel to see them, hosting a dinner with our friends who couldn't travel home either, and just spending some wonderful quality time together.
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