December 7

The activity today was an adjustment to a project I find on the Family fun site. We made these cute little foam snowman that can hang from most anything. We strung ours up and hung them in our front room. The kids had fun making faces and putting the buttons on. Little Mister turned his into a dog snowman.

December 6

Today we made some paper ornaments. I got the idea from Family fun site. I wish I would have picked paper that was colored on both sides. However the kids had fun and they look cute hanging from the doorway to there room. We might have to try them again another day with solid colored paper or I just might make a note for next year.

We made a few other simple ornaments that look like Christmas balls and have the kids pictures in the middle. Real simple and fun. Well I am off to prep some more activities so my kids don't have to keep putting them back in the jar for another day :)

Yesterday's photos

I took the kids out and decided to take a few pictures. Made somemistakes inthe time of day and not feeding the hungry little ones first but here are my favorites from the day. A Special thanks to Aunt Melissa for rounding them up and helping keep them off the train tracks :). Alos to Miss Kim for giving us the idea for the location!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 5

Today's activity was fun to put together and watch. The kids and dad too colored different people and animals to make a complete nativity set. We then taped them to Popsicle sticks and did a puppet show. They were so funny trying to use all the sticks and make them talk. All little miss wanted to do was make the wise men go down the "slide" which happened to be the arm of the chair we were using as our stage.



Sorry the pictures are not the best they are more to just show you what we are up to :)
After we finished all this we were off to get Little Mister a haircut and take a few pictures. I will post some of the pictures early next week.
The best part of the day was when Grandma and Grandpa picked up the kids and took them to dinner and shopping. They couldn't wait to go to Wendy's with the Grandparents. Plus they got popcorn and got to walk at the store not ride in the cart. Spending time with the grandparents is the best ! For us it was a nice quiet time to get lots of organizing and cleaning done. Thank you so much Grandma and Grandpa the kids had so much fun!!!!
What a wonderful day!

December 4

Today was a busy day! The kids woke up at 6am. Way to early for me!! We were out of most breakfast food and I was scrambling to find something to feed my children. Then a pleasant surprise a knock on the door, cousin A was here. Not really a surprise she comes every Friday I just forgot. Got all three ready for School and out the door. First stop A to school, next Little Mister to school, last Little Miss and I are off to Bible study at church. I had a wonderful time with the Ladies there and enjoy each of them so much! Little Miss played with her favorite little buddies and two wonderful teachers. After getting Little Mister from school, a quick stop at the store we were home in time for a late lunch and nap time. However all my kids wanted to do was draw a new activity from the jar. Both were very pleased with today's activity. After nap we made a big Happy Birthday Jesus poster. They worked on this together happily for almost 45 min. To me that is a successful activity!

I promise to do Little Miss's hair for the next days activity :)

I hope you and your family are enjoying the season. As always I would love to hear what things you might be doing with your family too.

December 3

Today the Kids made christmas cards for friends. We had lots of foam stickers and coloring pencils so they spent lots of time working on these little notes. We turned on the Christmas cd Aunt M made us for Christmas last year and relaxed and had lots of laughter and fun . I enjoyed hearing them talk about who they were making them for.

Tonight they were eager to hear the next part to the Jesse Tree. Little Mister got his Bible out and they seemed really ready to hear all about Adam and Eve.

December 2

Twenty three days left and so far all the gifts I attempted to make tonight failed me. I guess it could be I messed up but really I did follow the directions step by step. One thing that did not get messed up was todays advent events. The kids wrote letters to Santa. It was cute to watch them make pictures and decide together what they were going to ask Santa for. This year was a change in that Little Mister wanted to write his own letter. It was so much fun to watch him concentrate and write his letter stopping to ask for help on how to spell words. I think Santa however is going to have his work cut out for him on the request this year. I don't know how your house works but Santa brings one small present and fills your stocking. After all he only has one Sleigh and lots of kids. However the kids can ask for four or five things to give santa options and ideas of what they might like to have.

Little Misters List:

Cat in the Hat coloring book

A giant Stuffed Penguin

Electric train set

Little Miss:

Barbie Coloring book

Baby doll with hair and comb

Barbie book

Green Eggs and Ham book (which we already own)

A Christmas Barbie Like Grandma's that she can play with

To get our focus back to Jesus's Birthday we continued in doing the Jesse tree and the kids were excited to hear the story tonight and even remembered last nights(and I thought they were not pay any attention at all). We got them a little tree for there Bedroom where we put the ornament each night.

Good Night and I hope your day tomorrow is full of fun and adventure.