I wanted to share a few fun traditions that my family has for the younger kids at Thanksgiving. We did these with the older cousins for years and now they are too old and cool to participate but the younger ones still look forward to them every year!
Saturday night, after dinner and after all the cookie baking chaos is completed, the girls toasted to a successful cookie weekend with their Shirley Temples and got busy with decorating the sugar cookies. The younger boys had gone to the Penn State game that afternoon and were not home yet so they could not join in.
Here is my sister and niece getting the icing ready for the decorators. PS-check out the cute sweater for Saturday?!??! Jordan killed it with Christmas outfits this year! Her leggings are cats with Santa hats too!!!!
The girls waiting with their cookies for the icing...
Sunday morning was the annual Gingerbread House decorating contest. The boys against the girls...
A close up of the boys team...
And the same of the girls...the older cousins opted out...party poopers!
Here is a close-up of the sugar cookies they decorated the night before.
My niece wanted to post it on her Instagram and have everyone vote but she does not have many followers so as of today, no one voted yet. I may have to do a late post on mine for her. LOL!
It makes my heart so happy that these kids have fun activities that they look forward to doing every year! Especially ones that involve them working together with their cousins!
I love my family and I hope you feel the same about yours!! Hugs!
What traditions do you have for your family? Do you bake or build gingerbread houses? What about special memories of the holidays?
