Christmas time is near!

The season is creeping up on us fast. We have been so busy with parties, shopping, playgroups, cleaning, and much more. I just wanted to write a little bit about our family tradition. We have many more to come this month but these are the one that are on going or have already passes.
One of my favorite traditions is to go to Idaho with my family and cut down our Christmas tree. This was Aleena's third year. I took her when she was just three months old. All bundled up! This year she really loved it. Eating the snow, finding the right tree and just being in her hiking boots. It was so perfect a light snowfall and not too cold. It only takes everyone about 30 minutes to find their trees and cut it down. But, it is still so much fun. This year we went to river dale hot springs after and went swimming. (I hope that we do this every year) We thought that we found the perfect tree. But in the light at our house it is really quite demented. Oh well it was fun. Aleena had a blast decorating it. She lays under it each night (we had to leave a spot just for her) and looks at the lights and plays with the ornaments.
Another one of our traditions that we just started last year is to go to the bountiful lights parade. It starts at 6:00 when it gets dark and all of the floats have Christmas lights all over them. Santa Clause is always sure to show up. Aleena's eyes were so big. She loved every minute of it. Her favorite part was the fire trucks because they had so many lights.





Some of the traditions that we do each day are Aleena helps daddy but up the ornament on the advent calender. She always waits until daddy wakes up. (he is on graves right now) Then they will put it up together. She always wants to put it on the top. They each night Aleena and I read a story from the nativity scene that I have. Each of the characters has a story to go with them. It is so much fun and she remembers each night. If we go to bed without reading one we have to go back down stairs.
Other things that we are doing this Christmas are making treats with Aleena , going to our work and friends parties, Having a preschool party and just little things like making a snowman and going sledding. Happy Holiday's