Fun Traditions

I love Holiday Traditions and adopting new ones each year.

In Lance's family they have a fun tradition where the cousins all draw names and send each other a Christmas Letter and an ornament. It's a fun way of staying connected and this year the girls and I decided to go the homemade route and found this cute idea from Family Fun Magazine. It was really quick and easy and the girls were able to help by picking out the baby sock hats, and painting the tubes.

In our ward here in Spokane I got a fun idea for a Christmas Book Tradition that we have adopted this year and it's been a huge hit with my girls. Lance's parents always send the same Christmas Book to every family each year and my Family used do this growing up as well so we have accumulated quite a few Christmas books over the years. This Lady in my ward does the same thing so every year on the day after Thanksgiving they wrap up ALL the Christmas books and put them under the tree and then every night the kids get to unwrap a book to read. It's been fun because the girls look forward to it every night but it's simple, and makes me feel like we're getting good use out of our books!