With our first Christmas together as a married couple approaching, Clint and I decided to start setting some Allred family traditions. We are just about finished reading the Christmas Carol and on Saturday we had a little party with our good friends in Columbus and decorated Gingerbread houses. We made delicious bread bowls recipe found here and some tasty soup found here.Here is the Allred collaboration. Clint came up with the christmas lights and the pink heart, which I think just make the house perfect! I came up with the log pile, tulips and freshly fallen snow. (And yes, I realize that tulips don't really fall into the winter/ christmas motif ...but in candy land, those rules don't apply.)
Everyone was coming up with such creative and unique ideas, we all kind of tried to out-wit each other. Lawrence and Tiffany win for most adorable, chrsitmasy house, They even had little curtains in the windows!
And Lincoln and Mallory...well they win for most originial.
Take a look at the detail shot. If you can't tell, Its a black guy sitting near and ice pond with ice skates on. Who thinks of this stuff? It had us all laughing. And this keep in mind this idea came after a failed attempt at building a gingerbread Parthenon. I think these two have the potential to be gingerbread masters.
Another tradition we started was sending out handmade christmas cards. This year we made a bunch of one of a kind postcards. I had a lot of fun making them, and hopefully our family liked them too!
And of course there is always the tradition of giving handmade gifts. This year I made this quilt for my niece who is going to be born shortly after Christmas
Traditions are such a fun and important part of family! I can't wait to start more throughout the years, and continue many that my family had. Merry Christmas friends!!!
5 comments:
i loved your card by the way! the paper, artwork- everything was beautiful! ours should be going out this week. (hopefully)
remember when we were kids and we used wrapping paper to turn our doors into large christmas presents? i think i'll do that with my kids this year. (on the inside of their door. lol)
merry christmas- and hope we can get together soon!
xoxo
jen
I love traditions! This was so much fun. My sister wants to talk to you about how you made the ginger bread house stuff. Lincoln is so proud of his little man of color, he keeps showing everyone who comes over. We need to keep doing fun stuff like this. Dinner was awesome too. I am a little worried about ever being as good of a host as you.
You can guess which family members loved the Milo card. I mean, don't get me wrong; we were happy to hear from you. But most of your message was for Milo!
I can't wait to give the quilt to Baby Mackay!
You are such a cute sister! I would have tulips in winter if I had my way. I can't wait to see you for Christmas. That's a cool picture with all of the postcards you made. We loved ours! And mom's made me laugh! Love ya.
Can I order a quilt from you for my next baby? LOVE IT! What a talent you are.
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