Traditions

Anyone want to share some fun traditions they have through-out the year?? Any at all??? please, i invite you to comment and share! I would love to hear!

This year we have loved starting our own. It's our first year married and we have had a fun time this holiday season creating our own fun! Of course we all have those traditions from growing up with families.. but its fun to create your own too as you combine both families, and ideas when you are together.

So far, we would like a few things to become traditions:

-For Halloween we compiled everyone we were spending it with, and took thier favorite Halloween tradtion and tried to make it as fun as possible. we loved that, because then we got alot of variety and it was really fun. the doughnut game will probably stick with us from now on. we might re-consider bobbing for apples next year;) We shared scary stories together, and also watched scary movies throughout the month. which really got us into the spirit. This year foodland was out of pumkins so we carved watermelons...which just might become a tradition of ours...to think of something different every year to carve!

-The other night we spent about 3 hours making snowflakes. fun detailed snowflakes(thank you Youtube). we then hung them all to our ceiling for decoration. Cheap(free) and very homey! .. We had so much fun listening to music and making them because it got addicting. We decided that we were not going to keep them for next year,(ok maybe some of our favorites) we were going to make it a tradition and re-do all the snowflakes again next year.

-We also made gingerbread houses. Just last night. and we loved every last second of detailing them. Huston was so intricate. This was a really fun thing to do together. makes for a great date night too, which we did join our friends. Its fun to bounce ideas off each other, and get creative. ...This is something we decided to try every year too. Maybe next year we will try them homemade, change it up a little bit.

- This year we baught stockings and glittered our names on them with glue and glitter, like my mom always did to ours growing up. It was fun to carry on that tradition. :) Gotta have stockings.

-We are starting another tradition too...There is a day dedicated for this next week-we are going to make lots and lots of Christmas cookies!! decorative and all!

-We started a tradition when we were just engaged last year, where we make hot chocolate and watch elf. :) haha.. have not gotten to that yet this year, because im pretty sure we over-did it last year;) haha. Poor Huston had to watch Elf or Grinch every night for 3 weeks straight almost. Gotta love Christmas. My excuse, there is only one time of year you can watch those movies;)

-This year we started a family journal together too. Its for monumental moments in our lives. and our adventures. its still pretty bare, but it is a goal we have to make it a neat adventure book-kind of like on the movie "Up". So far it only consists of letters to each other, reminding us why we married each other and how much we love each other in case life ever tries to convince us otherwise. Which we hope never happens. but, if it does...its there for remembrance.

-For our birthdays- we not only celebrate for one day, we celebrate for a week. who knows how long this one will last, but its sure fun!!!!!! :)

Please feel free to share! Its fun to remember, and we can all bounce ideas off of one another to make our years full of memories and fun!!