Meet the Woolly Alpaca family at Christmas time

Dear Reader,

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas Day!

I had intended to post this blog entry before Christmas but I haven't had time to finish it until now.

As I have already told you in other occasions, the Christmas holidays have just started in Spain so I hope you like to meet the Alpaca family and see what they are doing the days leading up to Christmas Day.

Sweet Berry Valley , as the rest of the towns and villages in Sylvania, is already in full Christmas spirit.

As it is tradition, a big Christmas tree stands in the main square next to the Christmas market.

This year the tree is decorated with beautiful stars. It is said that if families gather around the tree and wish upon one of these stars their dreams will come true.

One of the families who is gazing at the Christmas tree is the Woolly Apalca family. Although they moved to the Sweet Berry Valley several years ago, I haven´t had the opportunity to introduce them to you until now.

As Christmas is this family's favorite time of the year, I think it's a good time to see how they get ready to celebrate the festive season.

One cold and sunny day in late November, the Woolly family went out into the woods with their sleigh to find the perfect Christmas tree. The first snows had fallen in the village and it looked like  the residents of Sweet Berry Valley will have a white Christmas this year.

The Christmas tree is already decorated, as well as the rest of the Woolly´s home.

They are a very homey family and like to spend time in their living room, especially on cold winter days, so they have decorated it with care to make it as cozy and inviting as possible during the Christmas holidays.

Ariana loves knitting by the fireplace.Knitting is her favourite hobby. Now, she´s knitting a blanket for Gabriel, the baby of the family.

Gabriel can´t walk yet, he just crawls everywhere but he´s learning how to stand up with the help of his walker.

He has some toys scattered on the floor but what he likes to play with the most are his mother's balls of yarn.

Gabriel also enjoys playing with his sister Fiorella. Fiorella loves her little brother.

Now,Fiorella is writting a letter to Santa. She´s been a very good girl so she must be in Santa´s nice list.

She really hopes Santa brings her the dollhouse she saw in the window of the toy shop a few days ago.

André has been reading and now he´s just relaxing on the sofa drinking a cup of tea and eating Christmas cookies.

The smell of cinnamon and ginger spices of the cookies have filled their home with enticing festive aromas.Baking at Christmas is a whole family activity that everyone enjoys.

Fiorella likes to make the dough and knead it with a rolling pin.

When the cookies are baked, André takes them out of the oven.

They smell delicious!

Ariana is the one who puts the icing on the cookies.Firella and Gabriel watch in fascination how the cookies turn into snowflakes. André can´t wait for the cookies to cool before tucking in.Yummy!

Another activity they enjoy together is singing Christmas carols. They love music. André is very good at playing the flute and Arianna and Fiorella have lovely sweet and melodic voices. Gabriel can´t sing yet but he listens spellbound to his family.

On Christmas Eve,after singing trational Sylvanian carols, they play some of their favourite board games.

After the last game, Ariana brings out the crockery and cutlery for special occasions. She carefully polishes them for tomorrow's Christmas meal. Meanwhile, Andre and Fiorella  are preparing hot chocolate in the kitchen.

When the chocolate is ready, they snuggle up on the sofa to watch a Christmas movie. Watching a heartwarming movie on Christmas Eve while sipping hot chocolate and eating cookies is another of the Woolly´s family traditions.

Gabriel fell asleep shortly after the movie started. Fiorella was also very sleepy and went to bed before the movie ended. Before going up to her bedroom, she left a glass of milk and some cookies for Santa by the Christmas tree.

When the movie ended ,Ariana and André stayed on the sofa chatting for a while. André asked Ariana what she had wished for from the stars on the Christmas tree. Ariana replied that her family would always love each other and be as united and happy during the New Year as they were during the Christmas holidays.

No doubt that her wish will come true.

I also want to wish you Happy Holidays and may the New Year brings you good health, good luck and lots of happy moments to remember.

🌟I also hope all your dreams come true!🌟

I´d like to share with you the card the Woolly Alpaca family sent their friends and relatives to wish them Merry Christmas.