Christmas is my favorite holiday. I wanted to share our Christmas season, even though it may have to be separated into two posts.
We did not get to all of our normal traditions this year. We usually walk around downtown, go to Rock City, see the zoo lights, and take our end of year trip. Time seemed to slip away this Christmas season and before we knew it, we were out of time.
We did make it downtown to our town's boat parade/lighting of the city.
We usually get our Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving, this year was no different. We fell in love with our tree and deemed it our best tree yet. I didn't do the best job with lights, but it was still beautiful. My job is to get the lights on. Maddy does most of the decorating. There are a few ornaments that I put on such as the Manny angel ornament.
Another tradition we have is baking day with Nana. We try to fit in all the Christmas baking we possibly can. Every year we have so many plans, but we always run out of time. Here are our goodies.
Every year we buy one special ornament to add to our collection. This year Maddy chose a Black Widow ornament, and I chose a Gilmore Girls ornament.
Next up is our gingerbread house night.
As we got closer to Christmas day, it was finally time to make our Santa cookies.
We finally made it to Christmas Eve. Maddy always gets to open one present, but I pick the present. Every time I seem to pick the present that has Christmas pajamas. This year she got Marvel Christmas pajamas. I took a video instead of pictures, and the video is really dark. Here is what they look like.
Christmas Eve night we go to our church's candlelight service. It is my favorite service. Maddy took this picture.
Once we got home it was time to get everything ready for Santa.
I think I will end this post here and put Christmas day on another one. Until next time...
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