Per our tradition, we set up our tree the day after Thanksgiving.
Then also per our usual tradition, we did our annual gingerbread house making. It's a fun tradition that we all enjoy (especially the sneaking candy part of it).
This year we even did a little competition for best gingerbread house. Tessa was the judge and declared David the winner. He accidentally caved in the roof of his within the first 30 seconds of decorating but managed to turn it around making the house into a barn/farm. And here is a close up of the winning gingerbread house complete with cotton fields made from marshmallows and cornfields of of course candy corn, animals out of animal cookies, animal poop out of jelly beans, and a lasso out of a peach ring.
And a photo with the winner:
And Tessa hard at work on her house:
And Jenny working on hers:
Then this year, we made some of our own Christmas tree decorations from cinnamon, nutmeg, and applesauce combined into a dough and then cut into Chrismassy shapes and dried. They smell lovely and were a lot of fun to make.
Then we got our pictures with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Jenny is still scared of them, but Tessa actually sat with them on her own this year.
The girls went all out with setting out the milk and cookies for Santa this year.
We made chocolate chip cookies so he had the traditional cookies and milk. Then the girls wanted to give the somewhat commonly left carrots for the reindeer. Less commonly left but done at our house, the girls wanted to leave Santa apple slices and water to give him something healthy since they thought he would like something healthy since he probably would have an upset stomach from having eaten too many cookies from everyone.
And then Christmas itself was fun. Christmas with little kids is just a massive play day. They open one present and then want to play with it. So present opening lasts pretty much all day. It's really fun though. I enjoy it.
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