Christmassy Lists!

Here are a few Christmassy Lists for you!

Christmassy Crafts Completed:

I have officially finished all the Christmassy crafts I wanted to do this year! I'll post pictures!

• Christmas Card Door Display Ribbon
• Christmas Place Mats for the table
• Christmas Lights in our windows
• Christmas Front Door Wreath
• Christmas Tree Skirt
  

Christmas Baking/Cooking!

Now that I have finished all of my Christmas crafts, I will be moving on to Christmas baking and cooking! Here is what I will make:

• Cheese crackers
• Oreo Truffles
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
• Sugar Cookies (I have new cookie cutters to try out!)
• Mexican Wedding Cakes
• Oatmeal Crispies
• Marla's Buns
• Cinnamon Rolls
• Loaves of Bread as neighbor gifts
• and duh, duh, duuuuuuhn! A TURKEY! (yup, I think that's what we're going to try to make for Christmas dinner this year. We'll see.)

Christmas Stuff We're Doing or Have Done:

• Watching the First Presidency Christmas devotional
  
• Stake Christmas Music Program
• Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo
  
• Two Sundays full of being in special musical numbers at church
• Ward Christmas Party (with a theme of "The Polar Express"--it was cute)
• A Girls Night White Elephant Gift exchange for Erin (in which I totally scored some Christmas kitchen towels and a mug with a Christmas tree on it that has lights that LIGHT UP when you put something hot in it!)
• A Christmas party at some friend's from church's house
• Caroling with the Activity day girls and the cub scouts
• I would like to go to the temple before Christmas, hopefully we can make that work in the next couple of weeks

And I think that's it!

We have a lot of Christmas going on in the Carper Household! I love Christmas, and I love celebrating the birth of the Savior! Don't we have such a reason to celebrate?! I love that people, even those who aren't particularly religious, tend to be a little kinder, or a little more compassionate during this season. I think the spirit of Christmas somehow touches the heart of everyone during this time of the year, and the rough edges on people tend to round out just a little bit for a few weeks.

Anyways, Happy Christmas to one and all!