eight feet of christmas joy

years ago when i met glenn i was introduced to the christmas village- i remember looking at my mil's village for hours, it was so pretty and i loved it but did not want one of my own. i saw the trouble putting one up could be and just didnt' want to be bothered- ha ha ha- now its not christmas if the village isn't up. she was tricky in her work- she started giving the pieces to the kids and over the last 6 years we, i mean the kids have acquired quite the collection. here are some pictures of them (not the best but they will have to do.)

thats eight feet in length and 2 1/2 feet in depth (yikes)

gingerbread houses

years ago and i mean years, my mom had this gingerbread houses cut outs made out of this awesome cardboard but almost wood material. so every year that i can remember we decorated this gingerbread houses. it is one of my favorite memories from christmas time. i am so happy that the kids get to do them now. i was able to pawn my kids off on their uncles (score for me) and they went away decorating.. olivia was in heaven with the frosting and candy- poor jared (he did volunteer to help her) she wanted to eat not decorate.

 

hansen traditions

so in the hansen family we have several christmas traditions that occur during the holiday season. gingerbread house decorating, bowling, christmas eve dinner/program, watching the muppets christmas carol, pappasitos, game playing. last year was awesome because everyone got to be together and we enjoyed it so much. this year the dr in the family had to work so we were missing the dr's hansens, it was sad but only cause we missed miss sienna. one of the best parts of shane is that he always takes pictures, when he is home i just rely on him to take my pictures (not fair to him but he always takes pictures)  so the next few posts will be about the stuff we did mostly for my memory sake.