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 I am not the most competitive person, yet somehow I keep trying to make Christmas about competing haha.  This year instead of a gingerbread house competition, we did sugar cookies and Festivas...let me explain...

 Sugar Cookie Competition

We drew names for partners & themes, then we decorated & voted.

Clayton & Tyson: Theme = Travel

Summer & Dad: Theme = Animals

Mom (solo): Theme = Beach

(nobody told me my hair was crazy before taking this picture)

Jordan & Kya: Theme = School

Jordan and Kya were the winners, but everyone did so good!

Festivas

A few years ago a friend of mine used to have a Festivas party every Christmas.  It was based on a Seinfeld episode where George's family, instead of celebrating Christmas. celebrated "Festivas" which involved "airing out your grievances".  She had each couple make a diorama depicting a grievance they had from the past year and then presenting it to the group.  I loved this party, but after 3 or 4 years, things got busy and she stopped having it.  So...I decided we should try it as a family.  I got Jordan and Kya on board, and we went ahead with it on Christmas Eve.  I thought everyone did such a great job and it was a lot of fun.  We'll see if everyone will cooperate again next year, because I would love to 

make it a tradition:)

This was our diorama from years ago.  It was about Summer coming to sleep in bed with us every night and Mike ending up sleeping on the bed we made on the floor for Summer.

This was a couple years later.  Our grievance was Mike getting called as Bishop:)

And this are from this year...

Mom's:  Stormi going in and out non stop all morning while mom is trying to read her book.

Dad's:  His broken knee (you can tell he put a lot of time and effort into his--haha)

Kya's: Depicting two girls in her class fighting, while she's in the middle all while another kid is filming

Jordan's:  Her co-teacher from Pre School getting mad at her for throwing out the broccoli after asking her to throw it out

Summer's:  Not being able to eat all the yummy food with gluten in it.

Tyson's:  Everyone in Utah substituting cuss words with words like Fetch and Fudge haha.

Summer was the winner, but again, they were all so good!  I could not stop laughing:)

So I'm not sure it's the competition party that I like, but the competition makes everyone try harder and get more into the activity.  So let the competitions continue!!!