I love the Christmas season and I have been anxiously awaiting it long before Thanksgiving. I love everything about it. This year for Christmas we started a new family tradition and decided to draw names between us all. I got Austin; Austin got Cameron; Cameron got Me; Andrew got Spencer; and Spencer got Andrew. Austin was in charge of preparing the names so we could draw from a hat and he took it to a whole new level. He didn't just write the names on a small sheet of paper, he went to the effort of taping money (coins) to them as a special added touch. He was pretty excited to be in charge of such an important task. Spencer and I just laughed.
So this last Saturday we made a special trip to Fred Meyer and each of us got $10 to spend on our person. Austin was able to maximize his money and came away with 4 presents for Cameron, again which he is pretty proud of. The boys had so much fun hunting for the perfect gift, and I can't wait to see if we can make it till Christmas with out them spilling the beans on what they got. We shall see...
How fun! We started doing this when our boys were little. Now instead of drawing names we have a rotating list...because some people kept drawing the same person over and over... I can't believe Christmas is next week!
ReplyDeleteI love this idea, Nicole! These are good memories in the making :)
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you and the family.
Sounds like fun. We have done that on and off as the budget allowed. Hopefully next year we can pick that tradition back up. I love that Austin tried to maximize the gift giving!
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