Holiday Traditions

Growing up, this time of year was always filled with lots of holiday traditions.

Letters to Santa (I sure wish my mom would have saved them. I bet they'd be pretty funny to take a look at now.)

A trip to the tree farm (I'm sure it took us girls hours to all agree on a tree. Funny...I don't remember that part.)

The joy of putting my favorite ornaments on the tree.

Caroling with friends/family from church.

Christmas Eve dinner with family at my Grandparent's house.

Opening one present before bed on Christmas Eve. (Always new jammies!)

Getting up early Christmas morning and waiting for mom and dad to join us.

A Christmas morning full of gifts, a sweet breakfast treat, and playing with new games and toys.

So much fun. And so many happy memories because it was the same joy filled activities every year.

And I want Levi to have those kinds of memories too. Things that he can look back on when the "magic" of Christmas has faded. Creating these traditions with him is really important to me.

So this week we've started creating our own family holiday traditions.
Levi's enjoying the advent calendar that has a little treat in it each day. So far it's been stickers, race cars, silly robot toys and fun holiday activities to do as a family. He can't wait to find out what's in the pocket each evening.
We went and cut down our tree at the farm.
And decorated it with the Christmas music on. Levi wanted to touch, play, and put every ornament on the tree this year. It's fun to see him so excited.And of course, Levi had to help daddy put the star on the tree. It's a tradition for sure!
We have lots more holiday activities (soon to be holiday traditions) awaiting us!