Advent Activities

This year we are celebrating the Season of Advent a little differently. Our hope to create lasting memories of this wonderful time of year where we focus on doing things together as a family and giving to others in ways that we can. Each day the kids open a card that has an activity on it. It has been a resounding success and we will look forward to planning Advent Activities next year too! Here are a few pictures from some of our activities.

The Advent calendar up and ready for the season.

Making Christmas Cards

Pulling down the next card.

Marin's turn

Marin is working on sounding out words so this has had an extra level of fun each day.

Loaves of GF bread ready to take to church for the Home Tour bake sale. 

Building a craft at Home Depot - they provide this free service the first Saturday of each month!

It is so much fun to hammer with real nails.

Time to paint.

Daddy giving a snowflake demo.

Working hard on making snowflakes.

Beautiful!

This cutting is hard work.

All by myself!!

Sweetie, our "Kindness Elf, " hung up the snowflakes in the night. Do you see her in the picture?

Stringing popcorn and cranberries.

Daddy is home from work and Charlotte is up from her nap - stringing part 2.

Mommy with two "mermaids" and our new decorations.

At the theater to see the Nutcracker. The ballet was wonderful and the girls kept telling us how much fun this was.

In downtown Longmont ready for the Parade of Lights.

Big girl Charlotte needing some close time with Mommy.

Eskimo Kiss

Here comes the parade.

At our "company lunch" with Mommy on the same day Daddy went out to lunch with his work team.

Charlotte's class making gingerbread houses.

Marin's class making gingerbread houses.