Christmas Traditions

Christmas would not be complete without a few Wall family traditions. If Greg only knew what he was getting into with Christmas with the Walls. We started the day with a little cookie decorating. Matayia loves to decorate cookies for Santa but Kaitlyn wasn't quite sure about that spreading the frosting thing.

Her first cookie looked like this...



She then decided that spreading frosting was overrated and went for sprinkles only, almost the whole jar...



She then got it figured out, and just licked the frosting knives clean!!!



On to the next Family tradition, a Fondue dinner. I think this is one of my favorite Christmas traditions, I love to fondue, maybe it is because I love meat and you definitely get a lot of that. We all complain about how bad we stink when we are done but the extra load of laundry is well worth it for me. On the menu this year was, Steak, Chicken and Shrimpys. Along with Ranch Doritos, other chip selections, veggies, mom's famous bread sticks and endless glasses of slush. Thanks for the great dinner mom, sorry about leaving you with the stinky house!! (As you can see no pics of dinner I was too busy eating)


The weekend just couldn't end without a performance of the chimes. Matayia thought this was really fun this year. She was really good at it, and definitely has some rhythm. After a little practice we could play some of our favorite Christmas songs


such as, Jingle bells, Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, O come all ye faithful, and of coarse We wish you a Merry Christmas. Thanks mom for always "making" us play the chimes over the years. I actually really enjoy playing them now, I'm sure I would actually miss them if you couldn't find them.