One of the Christmas traditions that the kids love most is making Christmas cookies! We make everything completely from scratch, and the kids are now old enough to actually help! In fact they did all the frosting and decorating themselves! Because the cookies are so good, we gave most of them away!!
Faith was very helpful using the cookie cutters to shape the cookies!
Shane carefully decorated many cookies! It's so nice that both Faith and Shane can help so much as it otherwise can be a very lengthy project! Poor Olivia missed out on most of the cookie fun. We let her have a few to sample, and for the next three days she asked for cookies at every meal!
That night, we went to the Parade of Lights at the Ventura Harbor. This event has been going on for almost 40 years, but this was our first time attending, and it was so much fun it will not be the only time we attend!
Because we rarely get "cold" weather here, when we do go out in the relatively chilly evenings, it's a big, exciting event! Faith helped me find all of our cold weather clothes, and together we came up with what each person should wear to stay warm! Olivia loved her hat, and she thought my ear muffs, or ears as she called them, were hilarious!
Steve found a place that sold hot chocolate, so the kids loved having that treat as they watched the boats.
At the conclusion of the parade, there was a very nice fireworks show! This was Olivia's first time seeing fireworks. Thankfully she loved them as much as the older two, and even said, "Oooo, Ahhh" after each firework! It was pretty cute! We now have a new tradition to add to our list!
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