We have a lot of Christmas traditions in our family--some we've done for years, and others just kind of sneak in to the tradition reportoire. (I'm sure that's not how to spell reportoire, but I still don't know how to spell check this blog business.) And some things we do just once, and that's tradition enough. Nevertheless, I've taken some pictures of some of the things we've done in the past week or so, and here they are. They are in no particular order:
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| For the past several years, the girls have built slinky towers out of presents. They say that they are doing it to make a cool set of stairs to send the slinky down, but they're really just looking for an excuse to shake, smell and feel all the presents. |
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| The making of the annual Decker Fruitcake. Tradition says that everyone needs to help stir in order for the family to have good luck. The Lord has greatly blessed us all. Maybe it's because of the fruitcake? |
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| The finished fruitcake--we ate it for breakfast Christmas Eve morning. It was tasty and delicious as always. |
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| This year, instead of caroling, we took the family band around to wish the neighbors Merry Christmas. We passed by one house, and the people inside shouted, "Hey! What are you doing? Come play for us!" And we did. It was fun. We had to go while it was daylight so folks could see the music, so lots of places we went, folks weren't home yet. (Angela had music pinned to her back. I held Angela's music in the book, and I had Susan's pinned to the front of my jacket while I played conductor.) |
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| Not really a Christmas tradition, but we made homemade corndogs for Christmas Eve dinner! |
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| We spend a lot of time doing this ever year! |
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Our annual Christmas puzzle! As far as we're concerned, an easy 500 piece-er is plenty!
I can't figure out how to get back to the "text" portion of the post, so I'll finish it up here in this caption. As soon as I download pictures from other folks' cameras, I'll post more. |
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