This Christmas season was filled with lots of traditions new and old. Little Aubrie came home from daycare with this elf hat on and loved it so much she wouldn't take it off and kept saying, "hat, hat, hat".
This was the second year for the Evans family Christmas party. This year my mom added some contests since our family is quite competitive. The first contest was "ugly sweater/outfit" and my dad won of course, even though he was mad about having to wear his outfit the entire party ;) There was also a white elephant gift exchange that included lots of family gems including pig statues from my grandma.
Our little family in our "Ugly Christmas outfits" minus Aubrie's cute outfit.
The second contest was the Gingerbread House Contest. Sterling/Amanda and Grandma Downhill won this year. This was our house with our secret ingredient of cotton candy snow. We found out the next day that this wasn't such a great idea as it all shrunk and looked terrible. Next year we will have to find another secret ingredient. Jeff had fun getting into building our house and putting all the details on it.
Some of the Christmas traditions I enjoyed this year:
As a child we had one of these advent calendars that you would "decorate" the tree each day with an ornament. Aubrie enjoyed putting one on each day and would clap after she placed them.
We weren't able to make it up to Temple Square this year but we did get to see the lights via drive through at Thanksgiving Point. Aubrie was in awe and kept saying, "Woahhhh" at all the lights. We went during a terrible snow storm so we opted to skip petting the reindeer, maybe next year.We also drove around Draper and Sandy to see some lights. This was my favorite house below. They had lights that were synchronized to music and even had what looked like a real Santa in the window. We sat and watched for a half hour since it was so neat.
Draper Park:
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