A new journey...: Holiday fun and traditions

Thursday, December 23, 2021

Holiday fun and traditions

We've made SO MANY COOKIES!! 🍪 We made some pretzel rods and snickerdoodle chex mix to start the season off. The chocolate pretzels are so good! Carson even brought one to his teacher.

Our neighbor Barb invited the kids over for some cookie decorating. This has turned into an annual event. Barb bought them some fun holiday gear and sent them home with Christmas gifts. She is so sweet. She is like a grandmother to the kids. We have the best neighbors!

We hosted my Mom, Sister and niece for our annual cookie baking at our house. We made magic bars, snowballs, candy canes, sugar cookies, and peanut butter kiss cookies.

The kids got bored of decorating the sugar cookies pretty early on, so the adults had to finish. I didn't mind!

Just a few of the cookies. I forgot to get a pic of the finished products!

Kennedy LOVES sugar. She kept coming back in the kitchen to sneak hershey kisses and cookies. We couldn't even be upset, just look at that sweet face!

Lance, Carson and I dressed in our holiday gear for a neighborhood Holiday party. Can't go wrong with red plaid!

We did our annual "get in the car and go see Christmas lights" tradition. Hot cocoa in hand of course.

Mandy and Jon graciously took the kids to "Christmas in Color" drive through lights in Federal Way. They got to sit in the back of the truck with Kennedy, they had a blast! Kennedy kept saying it was "amazing." Then they treated them to dinner at Wendys. The best!

Lance and I took the kids to "Holiday Magic" at the fairgrounds. It was really fun! There was shopping (I bought a fun pillow for the camper), lots of lights, food, hot cocoa and cookies, a carousel and train ride, a laser light show set to Christmas music, and lots of places to take selfies. We had a great time! There was ice skating too, but we opted not to do that. The rink was pretty small, and the kids may go next week with their Aunt and Uncle.