Ryan Jensen Family: Christmas Spirit

On November 27th for Family Home Evening we made our yearly Christmas ornaments. Every year we get a new ornament for every member of our family, this is something that Ryan's family did when he was growing up and wanted to continue the tradition. After looking at the stores and prices I decided we could make our own that would be a TON cheaper and look better. I had seen a few ideas floating around the internet and found some by Martha Stewart made from buttons. I thought it would be perfect since I have a huge container of miscellaneous buttons.

Emily's is a snowman, we did it yellow instead of black because her favorite color is yellow...

Emily wanted to wear it as a bracelet instead of hanging it on the tree

Christopher's is an elf...

Nathanial's is a wreath; he picked out all the beads and made it all by himself...

Kara's is Santa...

and Ryan's is a reindeer...

This year for Christmas Ryan's oldest brother gave us tickets to go to Tinsel Town at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland on Saturday, December 1st. We told the kids that we were going to go to the North Pole. They weren't sure how we were going to do that so we came up with a story to tell them. We said that we were going to the North Pole, we had to park our car and then walk through a magic tunnel and a magic portal and we would be in the North Pole. The parking garage was connected to the theater so that was our tunnel. The magic portal was just the doors to enter into the theater. The boys have never been to the theater and since it is older and doesn't look like anything that they have seen before they believed us!