12 days of Christmas

With just having moved into a house, I wanted to at least make sure we had a real Christmas this year, even if we didn't do that much. Last year we had a foot high Christmas tree in our hotel room. We didn't quite have time for 25 days of Christmas, so I went for the 12 days :) Here are a few of the things we did!

1 - Secret Santa with just some basic food

2 - Fruit baskets delivered to the missionaries, or should I say Clay rang the doorbell, ran as fast as he could and jumped through the sliding door opening while I was driving off at the same time.

3 - Popsicle sticks sleigh ornament

4 - Made peppermint chex mix for a treat during movie night

5 - Had friends over to make gingerbread houses

6 - Picked out a Christmas tree and decorated

7 - Kort and I did salt dough handprint ornaments

8 - Below is a video off of my friend's facebook page that they took in front of their house - they did all the lights themselves. When we went to look at them, we couldn't get the radio station to tune it so that's why I'm "borrowing" her video :)

8 - We read the Christmas story out of the Bible

9 - 12 were days/nights of prepping to do the rest of these things :)

It was a little difficult getting into the Christmas mood while trying to unpack everything at the same time while also trying to decorate the house, but in the end, we sure loved having a place to call home to spend Christmas.