Christmas Traditions for Alaina

Dear Alaina,

Since this will be your first memory scrapbook, Mommy wants to share with you some of the Christmas traditions in our house.

For the first time, this year, we are going to have 2 Christmas trees - a pretty tree for our living room and a family tree in our den.

Throughout our house you will find Christmas pictures from every year since Mommy and Daddy were married. These are very special pictures to our family. In last year's picture you were such a little bitty baby all wrapped in red.

This year we are also starting the tradition of family advent. We will be reading together every night to prepare for Christmas when we celebrate Jesus' birth. We will also be hanging an ornament on our advent calendar.

We have some nice scrapbooks that we pull out at Christmas. These are full of Christmas cards and pictures from our family and friends in years past.

We love remembering as we look at these scrapbooks.

And this year we started a cute little scrapbook to save all of your pictures with Santa.

This is a tradition we will enjoy.

Our stockings are hung. You have a new stocking this year.
Your play nativity is under the tree.
You and Sissy will spend alot of time playing down there I am sure.

To my surprise, you have not pulled over the Christmas tree yet. You aren't really touching it at all....but we do have many days left in December. We will see about that.
There are so many fun family traditions to come. You will love them all my sweet girl.
And what a blessing it will be to see you experience Christmas this year.