Traditions

We have developed a few new traditions the past few years. This is us searching for the pickle. The winner gets $5! There is a pickle ornament hidden in the tree. We walked up and in about 5 seconds, literally, Amber says that she sees it. She always finds it first! So she just didn't play and let us keep looking. The little girls are playing too. SO here we are. Amber dying laughing that we are all searching and can't find it. I bet we looked for a good 3-4 min. She'd stand there and say, "I'm looking right at it." I'd stand where she was, look at her eyes, and I could NOT find it! Finally I had her show me. I was too frustrated!

Once we (Taylor Ryan and I) knew where it was, we hinted and let the little girls look.

Lindsey found it!

So, she got the $5!

Then we moved on to the nativity scene!

The Narrator/Inn Keeper

The rest of us...Joseph, Mary, Wisemen(women), Angel and baby(toddler) Jesus
We need some more cousins (wink wink) to participate to give some adults a break!

The last tradition is the peppermint pig. I'm not sure (sorry mom) what this one is about, but there is a peppermint pig in this red bag. We all hit it with a little hammer. I think it's good luck or something. Anyway, the girls like hitting it and then you can eat a piece of the peppermint.

We ended our night in sort of a rush. It had been a long, fun filled, exciting day. The girls took a bath and put pjs on so when we got home, they could go straight to bed. We were all tired after having so much fun!