We've been staying super busy this Christmas Season. Trying to keep the spirit of Christmas alive amidst the chaos of life. Here is a list of our advent activities we've been doing and will do. I haven't been great at taking pictures of them this year but there are a few.
1. Make a paper chain to countdown to Christmas
2. Write and deliver letters to Santa in Macy's BELIEVE mailbox
3. Nutcracker Ballet
4. First Presidency Christmas Devotional
5. Christmas FHE "Our Gifts to Jesus"
6. Bass Pro Shop Winter Wonderland
7. Clean out toys to donate, color a picture for "color-a-smile"
8. Wrap presents and make cards for Grandparents
9. Watch a holiday movie and eat popcorn!
10. Make a holiday treat (we didn't end up doing this, watching another movie instead)
11. Make treats for neighbors
12. Christmas Symbols FHE
13. Biggest Loser Finale party with friends (way to go John!!)
14. Drink hot chocolate and look at pictures of past holidays
15. Temple Christmas lights
16. Christmas Dance party in pj's!
17. Ward Christmas Breakfast, Cyrena's birthday party
18. Stake Christmas Music program
19. Anna's birthday, Make a gingerbread house
20. Wrap gifts for teachers
21. Celebrate Cyrena's birthday
22. Check out neighborhood Christmas lights
23. Make ice cream cone Christmas trees
24. Christmas Eve! Cookies and milk for Santa, sprinkle reindeer food
25. Christmas Day!
Oh my these girls can be so naughty....then I see pictures like this...*sigh
Heading to the Nutcracker Ballet, just me and the girls
Natalie wanted a picture with all the ballerinas. Several of them were in our ward so they were more than willing to oblige!
For Color-a-Smile they colored Happy New Year pictures just in case they didn't get passed out in time for Christmas. Natalie is getting so good at coloring, Cyrena was very uninterested in coloring at her age so it's strange to see Natalie taking to it this young.
Bass Pro Shop is a must. The picture above isn't the picture they printed and gave us but it's one we took ourselves. They really stepped it up this year adding a cool carousel!
We decorated gingerbread men
Our PJ dance party
Last month we participated in Operation Christmas Child. The boxes had to be turned in by November 20th and it always signals the beginning of the holiday season for us. We found out our boxes were shipped to the Phillipines.
6 comments:
Great job on your advent so far! What did the girls think of the ballet? I mentioned to Dan this past week that I'd never been to a ballet but that I wasn't sure I ever wanted to...not sure if it'd be my cup of tea or not. Your thoughts?
You are so FUN! I bet your girls love all of the fun things you do every day getting all ready for Christmas. What fun memories!
You are on top of it! Wanted to post our advent activities before we left but that doesn't look hopeful... thanks for sharing yours! Looks like you guys have had lots of fun things going on!
So glad I was apart of your countdown to Christmas!
I need to do the bass proshop next year!!!
LOVE it! :-)
What fun activities for your girls, you are supermom! Hope you have a very Merry Christmas!
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