On the TWELFTH Date of Christmas....

This date is a tradition that we started in 2001. Tim was working for a global company and after 9/11 they laid off most of their US employees. That was the first week in October 2001. The second week our newly finished basement FLOODED with 2 feet of water and the third week, Cooper was born. It had been quite the eventful couple of weeks. Knowing that we had to conserve what money we had until Tim could find a new job and to rebuild the basement, Christmas was going to be thin. So instead of bemoaning it, we started a WONDERFUL tradition that we all look forward to each year.
On Thanksgiving we draw names and have until Christmas Eve to MAKE our person a gift. Only Mom knows who everyone has so it's a fun reveal on Christmas Eve.

Grandma gave Cooper this really cool book. She was the author and Illustrator!

Tay gave bay this really sweet hat with custom dingle balls and glitter!

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Lani made this magnet board for Tay to hang up in her apartment.

Morgan made Lani a really cute bracelet.

Dad made Harrison a CD with all his favorite Weird Al songs.

Cooper made Morgan a photo cube with pictures of the two of them and a cute note. Cooper did his Secret Santa all by himself this year.

Bailey made me a really sweet keychain.

Harrison made dad a CD of his favorite songs. Funny...they had each other and they each made CDs.....Like father, like son!

I made grandma three picture collections of her three kids in frames to put on her fridge. {{Cutest kid is in the middle!}}