Christmas Adam...

you know, the day before Christmas Eve...We have started the tradition of spending Christmas Adam with Chad, Ronni and the kids every year. And we are ALL about traditions...Growing up in our family we had lots of traditions, and now with our parents gone, we realize exactly how important they are and how we want our children to have traditions as well! We (Ronni and I) decided to add a few new ones this year, that we hope to keep going for years to come! Like getting matching Christmas PJ's




We eat dinner and then let the kids open all their presents from us...They dont really care much for the dinner, so we have to threaten them...You don't eat, you don't get presents :)









As usual, the kids got WAY TOO MUCH, but they loved everything!
Another new tradition is to do resurrection rolls...Although this is more of an Easter project, we wanted to understand that we celebrate the Savior's birth, with the hope of knowing that He was born on earth, for crucifixion AND resurrection...
We took a Marshmallow that represented JESUS (white as snow) and then dipped it in butter, representing the oils placed on his body

and then in a cinnamon sugar mixture representing the spices that were place on his body...

Then wrapped the marshmallow in a crescent roll representing the cloths they wrapped him in and placed "him" in the tomb (or oven in this case) for 3 days (but really just for 15-18 minutes...

and went they came out and you bit into them, the marshmallow (or Jesus) was GONE...
What a NEAT way to explain such an important part of our faith!
(and the tasted WONDERFUL!)
Then we decided that we would start the tradition of doing Gingerbread Houses...knowing that when they all get big, that our houses will become bigger and better and more creative :)