New Traditions

This year I wanted all of us to make our own special Christmas ornaments. We've been so busy ever since I started my small home-cooked food business and I've been lucky that it's picked up so fast especially on the last week I'm open for business for 2015, that we've had to hold off making them. 

Hold off we no longer can because we're leaving on Friday! So glad I decided to push myself and commit to my biggest order yesterday instead of delaying it to this evening. So tonight, we were able to sit down at our dining table and make very big and very fun mess making out personalized ornaments.

The kids ended up with snow globes instead while husband and I made ours simple but very sentimental. We had only planned to give Zenon an option to make a snow globe instead but then husband came up with a great idea of using Zayden's "old" (only very recently did he stop using) Tommee Tippee baby bottle for the base. 

Zenon painting the small mason jar base for his snow globe.

We put red paint on Zayden's hand because we wanted his hand print on his snow globe. 

Zenon's snow globe with the mason jar base. He glued a Lego man inside and out some snow flakes in it so he's standing in snow. He painted the globe with a silver stripe with red running down the middle because he wanted it to look like a football helmet from his favorite college football team, The Ohio State Buckeyes. I found some letter charms in one of craft supplies drawers which he used to spell his whole name out. 😊

Zayden's baby bottle snow globe! We filled the bottled with snowflakes up to the 2 oz mark which is how much milk we used to have to make for him. We ran out of the letter "N" so we used "U" and turned it upside down. Make it work! 

 My snow globe is very simple but it has very thing that's so special to me in it --  husband's and my hospital bracelets when we had Zayden, beads and puff balls which Zayden gave me 2 years ago (He said to keep it with me for protection while I was in Secuirty Forces Augmentee duty), and a few things from husbands and my wedding, "Happily Ever After" charms, pink glitter and some beads.

Hisban's is decorated with all 4 of our handprints and he labeled Rachel one with paint -- his says, "Dad", mine says "Mom", Zenon's says "Z1" and of course Zayden's is labeled "Z2".

What Christmas traditions do you and your family have?