OUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS, CRAFTS, AND ORNAMENTS!

I [Music] [Music] good morning everyone how are you today it is a lovely Saturday just kidding it's raining outside and it's cold it should be snowing but it's not it's just raining it's yucky out there but luckily we have planned to do a Christmas decorating day we have not gotten a chance to do that yet so today we decided all right we're just gonna not plan anything or going to stay home decorate make some gingerbread houses do some fun stuff like that so the kids can enjoy it and we just been so busy we have been able to even decorate our tree so we're gonna be doing on that which wasn't raining cuz I wanted to put some lights on the house the whole thing I was gonna put as much as I did last year because it's already a weekend of December but it's raining and now I can't even do that so hopefully I can get to that tomorrow or something if it stops raining and look at this doggie he's been really good and really sweet if you can share our last vlog or maybe he's long before that I can't remember if he didn't see a vlog one of our logs last week Daniel brought this dog home named Stark his family was moving and so we took him in for a few weeks these are really good he's such a good listener he knows how to sit he knows I lay down he goes potty outside he goes right in his crate whenever you tell him to he goes and lays down where you telling to eat stays retelling - he's kind of just like a perfect dog so it's been really easy having him around here named sweet he does like to chew on the kids don't nip you can lick you don't nip look at this cute shirt did you tease wait unless your t-shirt yeah it's a kitty cat it's a reindeer not funny that stop okay you guys so we are getting ready to decorate the tree we've got the bridge play it's loud the girls have their boxes of ornaments that they've gathered from over the years yeah look at this fun 2014 there's Tyler look at that sweet little girl yeah but you painted this one in 2013 I just paid John I just painted this one so it's pretty good I guess [Music] Judy has this one from last year at school let's see yep Elena made this one last year oh this is last year look at that sweet girl right there she's got this this was mine when I was little you know I gave it to you because I thought you would love the pretty bunny ballerina do you love it very bad yeah this was also mine when I was small actually I gave them a lot of my ornaments so this one was mine too yeah what do you have you a stitch she got this for Christmas last year because Adeline is pretty much stitch Oh jingle bells jingle jingle all the way oh what fun this is mine when I was little and we're gonna give it to everything this book is a little high chair it used to have a little pom-pom bear in it but it doesn't they are so little - browse open sleigh over the fields we go laughing all the way bells on bobtails ring spirits bright what fun it is to laugh and sing a sleighing song tonight you ready to hang some ornament what you got there okay and where you gonna put some where you want to put it so I can go get ready for it sure what did you hang any ornaments he did you didn't you didn't you didn't excuse me what do you need sure huh what are you doing thank you up I guess what those match your clothes pretty cool huh just Santa jammies on cuz we got Christmas time going here right yeah you guys finally I can put away the fun let's go jingle bells jingle all the way Oh [Music] that's what was about to happen he said chibis I'm gonna put the chairs down she still climbs up on the chairs together table guys I meant to say I can't ref I said in the vlogger I think I did but maybe I didn't if you have Christmas cards and you want to send them to us please do I'll put the p.o box in our description so that you can send it to us you want to hang them on a wall if you didn't see last year you put them all on a wall black by our guest room over here so it's cool with me I like 60 or something last year we did it last minute so I'm hoping this year we get more have all you guys here at wall and we'll show you in the video hey baby girl you try to sleep what she queueing like you're clumping but you know that you're gonna finally see me go for the sneak you go far asleep there baby girl daddy hang on the tree Eddie we don't eat them [Music] Daniel found these no dye dye free candy canes so it's been years and they have really happy candy canes punchy a couple years because we really just started doing that yes if you use together and now they can contains no artificial flavour no artificial color perfect somebody's getting into it addy so everything is on there we just finished watching the year without a Santa Claus and I'm just gonna clean up a little bit we're gonna have lunch but we didn't have any bread so John ran to the store real quick with you to grab some bread and suck home now to make tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches because it's cold outside and that's easy and yeah so for to make that but I just got something in the mail and I'm really excited to show you guys this so we ordered this I went to order it this year and it was sold out again last year it was sold out and I went I should have pre-ordered it but I didn't so I was really going out and like you know next year like first thing I'm just gonna order it December first I went to order it probably a little last minute um and it was sold out again so there was a pharmacy that said hey we have that in stock we'll send it to you so I was like please do we want to do that so I'm gonna show you guys real quick then open it here we go tada I'm so excited was it were my thing ha okay yes so you get a wooden manger a book the bundle of strong baby Jesus and basically what you do every time you or somebody under Finley does an active service or somebody whether it's someone in your family or somebody a stranger or whatever you put a piece of straw in in the manger and so by Christmas Day we want to have it says baby Jesus is to be placed in the manger full of love and service on Christmas Day so the idea is that all December long you're teaching your kids to do acts of service for others and you're able to then put the straw in and build up a sweet place for all the baby baby Jesus to lay how sweet is that so then baby Jesus has a comfy place built on love and acts of service for others to go with it it is so beautiful you guys this is called the giving manger we got from Bainbridge pharmacy and they found this on Instagram we commented on the giving major saying oh no got a stock and they were like we have a few left so I don't know if they have any but you might want to run not walk and see if they do Bainbridge pharmacy how sweet I'm so excited okay all right we're gonna make some lunch and get these kids fed and looks like somebody needs a nap yeah definitely you know yeah we'll see you guys in a bit all right the kids are watching my favorite Christmas movie it's the Santa Claus what's your favorite Christmas movie anytime it's oh look it's snowing it's snowing I'm sorry well consuming fine yeah I guess it is some kind of it's snowing look at our garlic sterile I'm looking at it actually don't look right everything looks awful out there there's a little bit snow coming down and if you're watching this so it's not that much snow but it's a little bit of stuff it's at least enough to say that it's snowing I've been calling this Christmas day not like it's Christmas Day but it's Christmas we're in our Christmas clothes Christmas food and we're watching Christmas movies and we're decorating okay she's in cookies pants you said Grinch pants but they're gone anyways that was just exciting caught me off guard a little bit now it's like dawn but what's your favorite Christmas movie what do you watch every year the Santa Clause is where I watch every single year i watch the Santa Claus every year we have to watch that movie and home alone let's write two favorites what's your favorite what's your favorite Christmas movies your first Christmas ever is this your first species ever are you so excited yeah it's gingerbread time we've got a whole village and why isn't any of these there's one for her too because she's gonna be a destructor this is true there's a lot of dangerous stuff and as you know our eating she would eat every single bit [Music] [Music] all right let's see what we got how much plan to show what you've done so far and then we'll show the finished product were you down with it okay here's Tyler's looking good I love this because who got into it check it out Elena's house right here complete with candy cane walkway look at the lights around the window red lights this girl is OCD love it Lena love it Tyler yours is wonderful it looks like something you would live in hi don't make you happy okay guys we finally got Patti asleep which it's 11:15 now I think she probably has been asleep for what 30 minutes 45 minutes baby yeah yeah and it ever leaves will asleep and so it's just I got it this time scale and we are so excited because two Christmas cards up the bed so you guys if you haven't sent us a Christmas card yet and you want to you still have time to write here right here's the address the boys PU buck 673 it's in Clayton North Carolina that's where our PA boxes and you can send us a letter there I mean a Christmas card so we can hang it on our wall we're pumped it probably won't open the mall on the camera because and to be honest I've not been the best of picking up the camera lately and so hopefully we'll get so many of that we don't have time to do them all it says Dear John Danielle Tyler Elena Judy a headland and Everly and all our names are spelled right I hope that you that all of you have a wonderful Christmas and very happy new year love Kristin Kristin thank you thank you Chris it's got a tape and stickers know what kind of thing okay oh my goodness we're gonna have to open this again tomorrow yes tomorrow with the girls up Jill this is so sweet okay wanted to send the girls a little something please share the stickers with each girl and give it a hug for me thank you so much and look that's I love that I love seeing you like okay whoops yeah that's why I think that's one reason I like it hey thanks are gonna you get to see we got a really like see the people that I just see but like are like it's your family you know it just feels like feels like oh say I'm feeling makes you feel connected more like it helps you didn't it that's what I'm trying to say like being go to see and put fate names into faces or faces to names like it really helps me like feel like more connected to the people that we serve so keep it look at these stickers that on you too so the girls are gonna live on these are like shiny yeah this is gonna be they're gonna be Christmas morning for them like this thank you so much you guys we're so excited it feels asleep so just get you know like actual pieces of mail from you guys and just says yeah I feel the knees up on the wall and just feel the love from our family our YouTube family and Young Living family I love you guys we're gonna close out this vlog because we need to get some sleep its 1119 here and tomorrow is Sunday so we have Church and we have a lot of planning to do because adilyn's birthday's next weekend and then Christmas is a week after that and we have not done any shopping there's never enough time in any day like that's one thing when I get into a depressed state but like things that depress me most of the time it comes from there's not enough time in the day like there's so many things I want to do an accomplished and I can't so we need to just prioritize but sleep is important because John and I have been neglecting ourselves in the sleep department we've just been staying out there working and staying up in there not sleeping yeah and I'm like let's go vicious stop clicking on computers and tapping on the screens and let's just go to sleep days tomorrow sorry my guess we'll see him by [Music] remember