In addition to all the community traditions, we still managed to squeeze in a few of our own personal traditions!
We swim laps regularly at a local hotel where we have a membership to use their pool. This year, they built the biggest gingerbread house I think I’ve ever seen! I was super impressed at their detail, and just the monstrosity of it. So impressed, in fact, I told friends they should stop by and see it with their daughter. Stephen didn’t think it was quite amazing enough to recommend others to “visit,” but he did agree to take a selfie with me!
After delivering presents on Christmas Eve, we went home to make our traditional foods: Stephen’s family rolls, scalloped corn & stuffing, sweet potatoes, truffles, egg nog. (I cheated and served a rotisserie chicken from these store.)
We had a lovely meal {very} late on Christmas Eve–after passing out hundreds of presents, making all of our traditional foods, and packing for our annual Christmas camping trip!–and enjoyed sitting around the tree with a Christmas book.
Early Christmas morning we finished gathering things into the car and headed out to a new campground. It was absolutely beautiful, and a very relaxing way to spend Christmas and New Years.
We had friends join us in the middle for a couple days, which provided fun company and they captured some great photos. Thanks to Jason Harvel; all the spectacular photos are his
And now we’re back, ready for 2019!
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