It's always fun to decorate the tree! Our lovely small house always has to be completely re arranged every year to FIT the tree, so it is a lot of work. We tried out the tree in a different corner this year and I loved it! From now on this is what we will do. I actually love how cozy our home feels when it is set up for Christmas, even though it is crazy squished!
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| The finished result! |
Olivia's dance class had a fun little Christmas party to celebrate...
The girls love making sugar cookies. We only make them once a year at Christmas time! The recipe I have makes an ENORMOUS amount of cookies, and so we actually gave away about 3/4 of them to neighbours and friends!
This is the first year we served at Santa's Anonymous. It is a charity that gives toys to less fortunate children in our city. I couldn't believe the stacks and stacks of garbage bags packed full of wrapped toys they had! SOoooo many! We took 6 bags, everyone picked one, and picked an area close to our house. The people were so grateful to receive the bags. It was such a great experience for our kids to do this, we want to make it a tradition and do it every year!
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| One small section of the bags in the giant warehouse |
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| On our way with the gifts! |
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| Sanding away |
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| This was the hunk of wood before |
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| And here it is after! They burned his initials into it too. |
I actually love going to the malls at Christmas and just feeling the Christmas excitement, and seeing all the beautiful decorations!
We made gingerbread houses...
I was taking this pic and Ben started to pretend to squirt icing on my head and this is the reaction I captured. I love it!
Yummy peppermint pretzels we handed out to friends and neighbours as well...
