Friday, December 17, 2010

Christmas Traditions

One of the reasons I love this season is because of the magical traditions that happen this time of year. Here are just a few...
The Elf on the Shelf...Jingle. Jingle moves around the house each evening. I will explain more about Jingle in a later blog. Stay tuned to learn more about our friendly elf...

The 12 Days of Christmas...The year Hunter was born, Pops and Annmother started the 12 days of Christmas. The way this worked is 12 days prior to Christmas Hunter would unwrap 1 present a day. He loves this tradition and looks forward to his gift each day. Below is Hunter enjoying one of his days of Christmas. This year Mackenzie was involved. Hunter loved opening her gifts for her.

Santa's Key... Below is our key for Santa. Because we travel, we want to make sure that Santa has a key to wherever we are. The key below is used by Santa on Christmas Eve.


The Advent Tree...Nannie and Papa gave us an advent tree a few years back. Hunter really enjoyed getting up every morning and putting a new ornament on the tree. The week before we left for Tennessee we added 2 a day. This helped count down the days till flying home to Tennessee. Below is Hunter putting on one of the ornaments.