Our Christmas List

This year we started a new tradition at our house. We made a list the first of December of all the fun things we wanted to do during the Christmas season. My friend AJ had told me that her kids had done this at Halloween and I knew that it was something we had to try! We made our list & I wrote it on pretty Christmas paper & we posted it on the fridge where we could see it every day!

Our list was made up of things like:
*Watch the Grinch
*Make Christmas cookies
*Write a letter to Santa
*Make Christmas ornaments/crafts
and on and on.

We had a pretty long list by the end of the season since we kept adding to it as we thought of fun stuff. Here are a few of our favorite Christmas activities...

Sit on Santa's lap

(This wasn't our "good" Santa pic!)

Riding the Christmas train at the Promenade

Christmas Lights and Ice Cream (this is a loooong tradition at our house!)

Seeing a movie

Actually we saw Tangled, not too Christmas-y, but still fun! It was H's first movie and I'm not sure he was too impressed, but Madeleine LOVED it.

Making Magic Reindeer Food

The kids decorated their bags with stickers. Then we mixed up the oats & glitter and filled the bags, tied with pretty ribbon and waited for Chritmas Eve.

Lights of the Ozarks.

The kids just HAD to ride the camel this year and they thought it was so fun! I'm sure we'll be doing this again next year. It's such a fun experience to see all the lights and all the Christmas excitement there.

I loved this tradition this year! It made the kids look forward to doing even the little things on the list & it kept them involved in planning our Christmas activities. This is something we'll be doing each year from now on, I'm sure!