Traditions

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Life Update: I feel like it was only a few days ago that I was writing a blog post during the week of Midterms, and here we are - It's finals time! Next Wednesday at 11am I will officially be done with my junior year...and be graduating in exactly a year. Kind of scary...not going to lie. 

Anywho, as you all know, last week was Thanksgiving, so I had the week off and went home. Oh, and by the way, I'm sick, so this post is going to be short and sweet and might not be coherent. Please forgive me. 

Basically, I spent the week with my family and friends. We had Thanksgiving dinner with the family at my grandparents' house. Then we did the whole Black Friday shopping thing. But the annoying thing was that all the stores opened so early on Thursday that we didn't get the actually experience. Clearly I'm not trading my grandma's cooking for some sale. Sorry WalMart. I did buy a huge box of chocolates with my sister and the movie "Forest Gump" (cause I've never seen it! *insert gasp here*). I got to do some events with the Humane Society like Christmas present wrapping at the mall and being in the parade on Sunday in Augusta. We got to do a fun photo shoot with a family from church on Saturday. We had all the cousins there, so it was a blast!

I came back yesterday for class, and today I had class and work. This week (and the beginning of next week) will just be reviews, finals, meetings, and work. The fun stuff. Oh! And we have 2 baby Christmas trees in our apartment! Yay Christmas! And fun fact: I helped make over 1,000 gingerbread men today.

Aaaaaaand here are a couple of pictures from this past week - 

Getting the Christmas Tree

Good Times at Steak 'n Shake

My Gorgeous Sister

Christmas Present Wrapping

The Parade Crew

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Traditions. As we approach the holiday season, we start hearing that word creep into our vocabulary again. Technically a tradition is something that is passed down from generation to generation, but we use the term loosely to cover anything that we may to from year to year. 

Some of my favorite memories of the holiday season are these traditions that my family has. For example, we always go with my cousins and pick out a tree on the Friday after Thanksgiving. And then we proceed to decorate the house that weekend. 

Moving on a little closer to Christmas, we always have a day (usually the Saturday before Christmas or on Christmas Eve) where the family gets together to destroy the kitchen and bake and decorate a ton of sugar cookies. We have the cookie cutters and all. Then, we do Gingerbread houses, and my older cousin usually starts a coconut "snow" war. The coconut always wins...

On Christmas, we do the whole running into the living room thing after we empty our stockings. Then, we have breakfast and take turns opening up the presents that are under the tree. In the afternoon/night, we go over to my grandparents' house for dinner and a gift exchange. It's always a lot of fun! Now that I don't live in the same city, it's nice to be able to see the whole family together and having a good time.

So, yeah, those are a few of my family's traditions that I look forward to each year. What are some of your Christmas traditions?


Happy Finals!...but for real
Megan

Fun Fact: Most of Santa's reindeer have male-sounding names, such as Blitzer, Comet, and Cupid. However, male reindeer shed their antlers around Christmas, so the reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh are likely not male.