I am making this post now, because I know I will be pretty busy with all holiday stuff. So here goes. This is what we do every year mostly that is!
Our Holiday Family Traditions
1. At the end of summer we go apple picking.
2. Make apple butter with the apples.
3. Halfway thru October we go pumpkin picking
4. The day before Halloween we carve pumpkins and enjoy pumpkin seeds.
5. Start Christmas shopping in November.
6. Every thanksgiving we put every ones name in hat and pick one, that way every person gets a gift for Christmas but no one spends a ton of money.
7. Put up Christmas decorations the day after thanksgiving.
8. Take a family photo by the tree for Christmas cards.
9. Make Lumpia for Christmas day.
10. Bake and decorate cookies, while listening to Christmas music.
11. Drive around and look at Christmas lights on houses!
12. Watch holiday movies together and snack away!
13. Make an ornament for the tree.
14. Open 1 gift on Christmas eve morning (usually a dress to wear for the activities). Or do jammies that night.
15. Christmas eve night read: night before Christmas to kids.
16. Visit with family.
17. Christmas day we open gifts and make lumpia and eat pot roast!
18. Celebrate new years. With candle lit dinner.
19. Put our new years resolution in stockings and pack away.
Anyone want to share their favorite holiday traditions?
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Oh and I forgot, we have to have brandy alexanders on new years eve!!
ReplyDeleteYay! I forgot about the Brandy Alexanders! How much fun was that!?! I miss spending the holidays with you. Can I see you soon?!
ReplyDeleteOur tradition is to go trap shooting after we eat on Thanksgiving day and after we open presents on Christmas. My family back in CA does this too so we have continued this all the way to CO!!!