....The most wonderful time of the year! I look forward to this holiday season all year long! Every year I say I'm going to get all of the busy stuff (ie shopping) done early so I can relax and enjoy it more, it never happens, but It's a nice thought. I love traditions, Mike not so much, but I feel they are important, so I try to carry them on best I can. Two of my favorite traditions growing up was making graham cracker houses and going to see the lights at temple square. These are the ones that I try to keep going. We usually make graham cracker houses with Kris and her family, but this year her kids were sick so we weren't able to do it. Trying to see the lights at Temple Square is a bit of a challenge since we live in Georgia. So we do the best thing we have out here, which is the lights at Lake Lanier Islands. We try to go every year, but this year the dad's aka, Mike and Mike didn't want to pay the money to go see them, so no lights! Do you think that stopped me? Nope, we were doing our stinkin traditions! I remembered that Grandma Cheryl had bought ginger bread kits from the craft store last year, so I dug those out of the pantry and we made our houses! Tradition #1 down....Mike had heard about a little neighborhood, close by that was doing Christmas lights choreographed to music, for charity, so we went. It was a small street, but still neat to see. Tradition #2, DOWN!
I LOVE to decorate!! It's fun for me to take a plain tree and make it into something beautiful to look at. I have 4 tree's that I decorate every year, a 12 foot tree in our keeping room, our "real" tree in our family room, a tree in our dining room and a tree at the top of our stairs. Last year after taking down the decorations and almost killing myself, falling off the ladder, trying to take the lights off of our tall tree, I decided it was time to scale down a bit, so we got rid of it. We are down to a 9 foot tree in that room. I'm sure as I get older I'll scale back even more, but for now I love it! Every year I talk about getting a flocked tree. When I was young, there was a neighbor who had a flocked tree and I always thought it was so beautiful! We never could find a place the sold "real" flocked trees. I even tryed to flock our tree last year, myself....bad idea! But this year, Mike found a place that sold flocked trees. YAY! It was awesome!!! Eventhough it was a beast to clean up, after I took it down, it was totally worth it!! A new tradition.
The kids....and the FLOCKED TREE!!
Making gingerbread houses.
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