Hill Family: December 2008

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Traditions!

So as I was listening to the First Presidency's message, President Eyring was telling of how they acted out the Christmas story every year. This brought back childhood memories of my families Christmas traditions so I thought I would share some of our families traditions with you.

In Davids family they were allowed to open there stockings while they waited for everyone else to come by the tree. They would have waffles for breakfast, which also a Sunday morning tradition.

In my family on Christmas Eve, which ever older sibling was around they would bring there family over to my mom's house and they would get the rest of the siblings and the grandchildren to act out the Nativity. Someone would read it out of the Bible and the kids acted it out. My mom lived in Israel or Jerusalem and has some of the shawls and head dressings that they would wear so it was fun to dress up and look like the real thing. What ever we didn't have, a draped sheet was a good substitute. We all played a part. I remember playing Mary when I was younger and a Angel when I was older. That was a highlight of Christmas Eve. After that, we would sing Christmas carols and eat Christmas treats. Then in the morning we had to wait for the "okay" from mom, who was the present passer outer. While we waited we all got our stockings to see all the goodies and little presents we got like,toot brush, socks and we always got an orange.

Our traditions as a family are few but are fun. First we put up our tree and decorate it after Thanksgiving. We started collecting Disney Hallmark ornaments after we got married and we get a few every year. Now that we have Amelia and Bree they both have a First Christmas ornament, and we started letting Amelia pick out ornaments for her collection. Bree will start hers next year. (We also have some other fun misc ornaments that are not Disney.) I think doing a gingerbread house will be one of our new Christmas traditions for years to come. I will usually do a Christmas scene puzzle, but I think the Disney one that Amelia and David did will have to count for this year.

We got this Village the fist Christmas after we got married, and I still think it is perfect!!! It is one of my favorite decorations that we have. Amelia likes to help me set it up and hand me the elf's to put in the village.

Of course we put up our Nativity sets so that we will always remember the TRUE meaning of Christmas.
This year Amelia and Bree got this Fisher Price Nativity from Grandma and Grandpa Hill.(Thanks!!) Amelia is playing with it all the time.

We put the pretty ones where they won't be a temptations for little hands.

I hope you and your families will have a

VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

this year!!!

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Puzzle Time!

So for FHE last night we hooked up David's laptop to the T.V. and watched the First Presidency's message, it was so good. During the program Amelia got into a puzzle that I had on the table and was playing with the pieces and actually got a few matches.

So after the program was over David started to help Amelia with the puzzle. She had such a fun time doing a puzzle with Daddy. She would hand him all the pieces and tell him where they go.

She was getting so good, she would pick out a piece and put it where it fits all by her self. She is so smart!!

This puzzle is 500 pieces. I was surprised that it was even keeping her attention.

All done! That was Fun!

The finished puzzle! As you can see it is puzzle of Walt Disney World Resort. It has a bunch of Disney characters..no wonder she had so much fun and it kept her attention.

Maybe she will like to do more big puzzles, we'll see.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

CHRISTMAS TIME AT WALT DISNEY WORLD!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

FHE Fun!

For Family Home Evening on Monday we had a blast decorating a gingerbread house. I got a ginger bread house Kit a Wal -mart with EVERYTHING in the kit. How clever!
WARNING: Not a good idea for inpatient people!!
Amelia was so excited when I showed her what we were going to do.

Bree had fun watching us decorate the house in the high chair.

David helped Amelia put frosting on the house.

Now that the roof is on we can start to decorate it with candy!!!

She would have rather have eaten the candy instead of put it on the house.

Bree eventually got bored!

Amelia loved putting the candy on the house. She got mad when we tried to help her cause she wanted to do it all by her self.

She thought it was funny when the candy would fall.

Mommy helped Amelia put lights on the edge of the roof!

Amelia loved to eat the frosting!
We had to take a break from the fun and get ready for bed and ready scriptures and say prayers.

Now that we have Jammie's on we can finish..eating frosting that is.

The finished product!

Amelia was so proud of her (our) creation!
That was so fun!

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Thanksgiving Fun!

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. It was very laid back. Thanksgiving morning we all cuddled in Mommy and Daddy's bed. It was fun to close together. Later that morning we invited David's brother Josh to go see Bolt with us it was fun and the movie was good. Amelia enjoyed it cause it was about a dog. She loves animals.

When we got home I started cooking. I put the turkey breast in the oven and everyone else took naps. By the time the food was ready everyone woke up and uncle Josh came over to eat. Then my favorite part, the dessert! Thanksgiving is not complete without Pumpkin Pie!!

We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!