This Is The Day: Advent

Friday, January 18, 2013

Advent

Okay, one last Christmas-related post…

This year the girls had Mommy’s Advent Calendar and Daddy’s. Daddy’s was the Lego Advent Calendar that he bought back in October. They loved putting together the little figures or scenes each night.

Mommy’s advent calendar was a bit more work. :) I used one of the ideas I found on Pintrest last year and got to it. It ended up being more work because I waited until the last minute…like the evening of December 1st and just ran to the local grocery store to buy the cups. If I’d been organized I would have bought cups in the colors…or at least white ones, but my only option was yellow and brown so I had to cover each cup with scrapbook paper. Then I used my Cricut to make the numbers and snowflakes. It took me several hours to get it all ready, but it turned out really cute so I was happy. :) I’m going to pack it up so I can use it again next year.

We started out the next morning with Christmas pancakes!

I didn’t get a picture of each day, but here is a random selection…

Three of the days throughout the month were small presents that they got to open.

New socks! :)

Making cookies. Love Peanut’s expression here.

I saw this idea on Real Simple: food-coloring in squirt bottles to decorate the snow. The LOVED it! I had sent them out the day before to play in the snow and they were cold and crying within 20 minutes. With the squirt bottles they stayed out for over an hour! I even had to refill them halfway through.