Christmas Traditions

Does your family have any fun Christmas traditions? Three years ago, I had a 5 month old, a 3.5 year old, and a almost 6 year old. Life was a little crazy to say the least, and I can vividly remember having a huge desire to start some fun Christmas traditions while my kids were still little. We already had a few traditions, like opening new pajamas on Christmas Eve after attending our church's Christmas Eve service, and reading 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and the story of Jesus' birth. Most years we decorate Christmas cookies and make gingerbread houses. But in 2008, I decided that I wanted to start getting a real tree every year. And not only that, but I wanted to go to the Christmas tree farm and cut it down ourselves. I had visions of the Griswold family Christmas tree in my head.

We had the best time that day. It was one of those family days where everything just went so smoothly and it was fun from start to finish. The next year, I decided we needed to do it again, and it was just as fun. This year marks our third year. My babies are now almost 2.5, 5.5, and almost 8. My, how time has flown! I am so very glad that we started this fun tradition. My kids' faces absolutely light up when we tell them it's time to go pick out our tree.

After looking back through my albums, I realized that I've never scrapbooked any pages about this fun tradition. I pulled out my external hard drive (psa...don't forget to have your photos backed up somewhere! I've had several friends lately lose years of pictures in computer crashes!) Anyway, I decided that for this page, I wanted to scrapbook last years pictures. I was feeling so sentimental as I made this page. I just can't believe how much they have grown up in the past year. (And, I am really glad that my oldest is past his shaggy hair phase. He had some crazy hair last year!)

Instead of printing each photo individually, I decided to create a collage using Photoshop Elements. Using a template I purchased a few months ago, it only took about 5 minutes to create the collage. I left one of the squares open to adhere a bit of paper and Magistical Memories chipboard. This page came together so quickly! I really like how it turned out, probably more because of the memories of this day than the actual scrapbook page.



I challenge you to scrapbook a fun Christmas tradition! I promise you, it will make you feel so warm and fuzzy and happy to scrapbook those precious family memories.

Merry Christmas!