This year, we had a lot of fun with our Advent calendar. We tried to do a special Christmas activity every day in December leading up to Christmas. Hannah was excited every day to draw a card for the next day. Some of our extra special activities included:
Visiting Santa at the Festival of Trees with Grandma Teresa (an annual tradition!)
Attending the library Christmas party and sending a letter for Santa with Mrs. Claus
Making a Mickey gingerbread house, a gift from Grandma Jody!
Drinking hot chocolate with whipped cream and sprinkles
Visiting Santa and riding the Christmas train at The Village Mall
Going to a live nativity at a local church
Doing special Christmas crafts at home
Making homemade flower shaped crayons out of our old broken crayons
Going to see a Christmas play (Peter Pan) and seeing Christmas lights in Danville
Making Christmas candies (smashing candy canes for peppermint bark!)
Receiving a letter in the mail from Santa. Hannah was SO HAPPY to find out she was on the "good list."
Singing at church on Christmas Sunday
Our family Christmas celebrations were kicked off at the Gurtlers on the 23rd. We went over after church and got to spend the afternoon and evening opening gifts and eating yummy food!
Hannah was excited about LaLaLoopsy and Rapunzel's wedding dress.
Jake loved his new Mickey bike!
We tried to get the kids to pose in their matching jammies at the end of the night. Landon was done-poor guy!
Grandma Teresa made Hannah and Marie-Grace matching robes! They are so soft. Hannah was so excited!
That night, our family was involved in a small skit at the Christmas Eve service. I love this picture that a friend snapped with her cell phone!
On Christmas morning, Hannah got a princess bike and some clothes from Santa!
Jacob got a tool bench and a basketball!
Santa left a note on his cookie tray.
1 comment:
Love all your pics--great job with the fun activities. I'm hopefully posting Christmas stuff soon too :) I feel so behind... I love the matching Christmas jammies
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