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six of our favorite christmas traditions

December 12, 2018

Christmas is one of our very favorite times of the year! Leading up to the holidays we had so many of you asking about our favorite family Christmas traditions. Christmas is such a special time, we really try to go out of our way to make the most of it. This year William is so aware of Christmas and all of the special traditions that it holds. He is very into Santa Claus, which is so much fun, but we also put a big emphasis on remembering that it’s Jesus’ birthday and that’s why we’re celebrating. Henry is still a little young to understand much, but he loves the lights and the tree- and Santa in theory, but not up close! It is so much fun enjoying Christmas with our little guys! Here are some of our favorite traditions this time of year. We would love to hear from you guys with any special traditions that you enjoy with your families, too!

gingham pajama set // Christmas train pajamas // Christmas stockings // Merry Christmas stocking holder // greenery // Christmas gift wrap and gift tags // fa la la pillow // cookies for santa plate- similar // Christmas tree mugs

Christmas Pajamas

This is one of our favorite traditions that goes back way before William and Henry were born! We girls always pick out matching Christmas pajamas and now we love to pick them for the boys, too. This year we went with J.Crew’s gingham pajama sets and we are loving them in the green gingham with red trim! We love TBBC Night Night’s for the boys. Since they love trains, we had chose this cute print and we love the I Want a Hippopotamus print, too!

Advent Calendar

This is a new tradition that we started with the boys this year. William loves it but Henry is a little too young to understand. I was searching for an advent calendar that we can use from year to year, but haven’t found one that I liked yet. I ended up getting a a one-time use Advent Calendar from Meri Meri. William can’t wait to open the new box each day. He also helps set up the Nativity with the new figure each morning. The Advent Calendar was one of my favorite Christmas traditions growing up and I’m excited to continue it with my boys. We talk about how we are in a season of Advent and that waiting for Christmas is how we are preparing our hearts for Jesus coming again.

Adopt from the Angel Tree

We typically will adopt children from our church’s angel tree, but this year every child was adopted before the second service that Sunday! Instead, we adopted children from the Salvation Army tree this year. We try to choose kids who are around the same ages as the boys and the boys love to help pick out items to give to the other children.

Christmas Decorations

We make getting ready for Christmas a family affair. Christmas music, a fire and the boys help decorate the tree! This year after we finished, the boys had hot chocolate for the first time and it was definitely a hit!

Visiting Santa

This is a tradition we started for William’s first Christmas and we look forward to it every year! We take the boys to visit Santa at the Neiman Marcus Downtown. The store is always decorated beautifully, you usually wait wait less than 15-20 minutes and Santa is so nice! Plus there’s always the opportunity for shopping… We get the whole family together and after Santa pictures we head to brunch – usually at Americano! Did you see this year’s Santa picture?!

Christmas Eve Service

One of our favorite Church services of the year is Christmas Eve service. The children are included in the service and we sing lots of worship songs and Christmas carols. There is always a candlelight song at the end and it really sets the tone for awaiting Jesus. Following Christmas Eve service we all head to my parents’ house for appetizers and dinner, followed by each of us getting to open one gift. Then it’s time for bed and waiting for Santa!

Cheers,

Stia, Jean and Katherine

Photographs by Audrie Dollins

christmas cookies

November 14, 2017

Henry is still too young to remember and William may not remember much about them yet, but in our opinion it’s never too early to start those Christmas traditions. Seeing Santa, decorating the tree, looking at Christmas lights – all traditions that we have celebrated since we can remember. Not to mention, believing in Santa for waayyy too long 🙂 One of our other traditions has been making and decorating Christmas cookies every year with Grammy. Now that I have my own family, I am so happy that my boys live close to their Gigi and we can start some of those same traditions!

Last week we woke up to a really chilly day (finally!) and we thought it wold be nice to stay in and keep the boys in their cozy pajamas all day. Even though it’s just November, we decided to make a batch of sugar cookie cutouts and decorate them for Christmas! William couldn’t get enough of the cookies at Henry’s Sip and See, so we thought it made for the perfect cold, rainy day activity. The boys stayed in their jammies and we got to work! William was such a help and we loved seeing how he decorated the cookies. He wanted to add each sprinkle one at a time- so sweet! Also, it is official: he is a cookie monster! He couldn’t get enough and even wanted Henry to try them. Yikes, haha!

We found the boys’ cozy, Christmas pajamas at Nordstrom. They are Burt’s Bees organic cotton and oh so soft! There are so many adorable pajama options at Nordstrom that it was hard to choose just one set. We’re pretty sure we’ll be adding a few more to the boys’ winter pajama wardrobe!

What are your favorite holiday traditions? We would love to hear!

Christmas Pajamas Details

on william and henry: fair isle pajamas (similar here and here)

on stia and jean: velvet tee|raw hem jeans|chambray cold shoulder top (old) similar top|jeans

Christmas Cookies Details

on william and henry: fair isle pajamas (similar here and here)

on stia and jean: velvet tee|raw hem jeans|chambray cold shoulder top (old) similar top|jeans

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Cheers,

Stia, Jean & Katherine

Thank you to Nordstrom for collaborating with us on this post!

christmas pajamas

December 12, 2016

We just love Christmas time and everything that goes with it! But sometimes it’s hard to step away from the busy day to day and remember to just take in the season, and remember (as trite as it may sound) the reason for the season. William does a good job of helping us to stop and smell the Christmas tree 😉 He squeals with excitement every time he sees it and we have to stop and touch the branches and admire the ornaments. And also try to keep him from grabbing the breakable ones- we’ve already lost a couple! In turn, we talk with him about Christmas and baby Jesus’ birth and His return still to come. We’re hoping as William gets older those are the things he is excited to celebrate at Christmas. We’re also pretty sure he’ll be excited about the presents!

Our family is all about tradition and we shared a little bit about our Christmas stocking tradition last week. Another tradition we love is wearing matching Christmas pajamas. This tradition has been going on since Stia was a toddler and we loved initiating Katherine into it when she and Justin were married. After we get home from Christmas Eve service, we eat dinner, put on our Christmas pajamas and then we each open one gift. On Christmas morning, you can find us all in our matching Christmas pajamas, sitting around the fire opening presents and eating a leisurely breakfast. Most years, we try to stay in them all day!

What are your favorite Christmas traditions? We would love to hear! You can see last year’s Christmas pajamas tradition here!

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Cheers,

Stia, Jean & Katherine

Photography: Megan Weaver