Baby's First Christmas

Harper's first Christmas has already come and gone...tear :*( Santa must have thought she was a good girl because he stopped at our house! Here is a picture of Harper and her stocking that her Great Grandma Betty made for her. In her stocking was two car seat toys and a pack of socks.

Santa also brought Harper two toys that light up and play music, and a dress for her to wear this summer. She doesn't really have an interest in the bigger toys yet, but she likes her toys that attach to the car seat!



And of course we had to leave milk and cookies for Santa, and carrots for this reindeer!


Although Harper is not old enough to remember this Christmas, we wanted to start some traditions now. Adam and I were discussing how there are specific things we remember doing with our families around Christmas time and we someday hope our children can look back on their childhood and say the same. :)

Here are the traditions we started this year:

• Making lefse
• Christmas morning breakfast of french toast and sausage
• Driving around town looking at Christmas lights

We would like to start these traditions next year:

• Making cut-out sugar cookies
• Making homemade cinnamon rolls
• Cutting down our own real Christmas tree
• Reading 'The Night Before Christmas' before bed on Christmas Eve
• Giving our children a Christmas ornament to open up on Christmas Eve (something that represents that specific year)
• Attending Christmas Eve church service

I know it may sound cheesy, but we want to provide our children with as many happy childhood memories as we possibly can! Even though I listed all the superficial things about Christmas - we will teach our children the real meaning of Christmas as well.

We hope everyone had a very merry Christmas! We were unable to make it to see our families because of the weather. So it was just us three together on Christmas, which was nice. We will be traveling back home over New Years to celebrate Christmas with my family. Only 5 more days left of 2009!!!!