Traditions Old and New

I have not in the past done any baking for Christmas, but this year I decided to give it a try. I made Jason's mom's peanut butter bon bons, that she makes every Christmas, and some buttermilk cinnamon bread which I came across on AllRecipes.com. Both recipes turned out really good.

For Christmas Eve we went to Rachel & Tyler's house and had a really good time at their party. I brought my Grandma's Christmas punch, a vegetable try and some peanut butter bon bons. The dinner was delicious. After dinner we played a fun hot potato game with a present. Who ever had the present when the music stopped had to unwrap a layer of wrapping paper with out using their hands. After the game we all wrapped boxes and put gifts in the boxes (food, school supplies and baked goods) to take to various families or shelters. We took ours to the Ronald McDonald house.

Some other traditions we did this year were: we opened our ornament presents on Saturday as listed in the previous post, we opened one present each before going to bed last night with our new pajamas in them and, we opened our new Christmas movie on Sunday. Each year we try to get an ornament to either commemorate a trip or a memory and we get a new Christmas movie (we are big home movie buffs) this year we got the first Santa Claus movie with Tim Allen.