Christmas Day, Our Way =)

 Just thought I'd put up a few pics from our Christmas day, even if it was a while ago now!

 Christmas PJ's the girls got the night before =)

 Handing out the presents...

 Yoghurt parfaits have become our Christmas morning tradition...

 Having a play with the new toys...

Obligatory Christmas tree photo...

 Lebkuchen, a traditional German spiced biscuit...

 Christmas table at my mum's...

 The kids all waiting patiently for their gifts...

 And ripping into them!

Can you see her "lisstick"?? (p.s. why do they colour kids lip gloss??? Just an uncoloured lip balm for kids would be great!)

 Stollen, another traditional German treat...

 No words for this one...

 Playing with bubbles, nothing beats bubbles!

I hope you all had an awesome Christmas! Even if it was awhile ago now...

Bells a Jing, Jing, Jingaling!!

I fully intended on starting some Christmas posts somewhere around the 1st December. But somehow, here we are Christmas Eve and I haven't done a single Christmas post!

So here is what we have been up to in the lead up to Christmas!

 Our Hexen House party ( oh wait I did do one Chrtistmas post!!)

 Our tree this year is all only homemade or decorations that come from the girls "special decorations box" which has at least one ornament added each year for them to take with them when they leave home =).

 Chloe got a sewing box for her birthday this year, so she got to do some Christmas sewing.

 Christmas card making.

 Toilet roll fairy house decorations (original idea here )

 Nature wreaths (original idea here)

 SANTA!!

 Wrapping paper stamping.

 (idea here)

 Loved this when it came home from school!

 Last day of school for the year!

 Santa sandwiches!

 School Christmas concert.

 Toilet roll glitter stars (original idea here)

 Reindeer sandwiches

 Hedgehog slice for Daddy's Christmas present.

 Salt water taffy for the teacher's Christmas present ( can't for the life of me find the recipe! When I do, I'll update!)

Australian Christmas trees!

(original idea here)

Christmas pillow cases

Christmas light walks.

Free Christmas lego (thank you Toy'R'Us)

My silly reindeers singing on the top of their lungs...Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer of course!

Christmas mice. I used to make these when I was a kid!

Every year we go into the city for a look at the decorations!

Have a very Merry Christmas everyone and a safe and Happy New Year!!!!!

Hexen House (Gingerbread House) Party!

Ever since my sister and I were little, we have decorated a Hexen House for Christmas. My Grandmother (Oma) was German so it was always a Hexen House, not a Gingerbread House ;)

As we got older and had our own kids we kept decorating our Hexen Houses at my house instead. 

This year I decided that it might be nice to share our tradition with some of Chloe's friends from school. So we invited 3 of her friends and a little sister for Eva to decorate with! 

 All set up, with Christmas Carols playing in the background of course!

 I didn't have enough squeezy bottles for the icing, so some kids had zip lock bags with the corners cut off. Worked really well!

The finished product!

The kids all had a ball and it was really nice to get to have a chat with the school mums. I'm not very good at socializing but I really enjoyed it! Afterwards the kids went out the back and played on the swings going a bit sugar rush crazy. They were all such good kids and super well behaved! I think we might have started a new tradition...

What Christmas traditions do you have?