Advent Continued....

DEC 13- Go to a Christmas Recital.

 

The recital was actually on 2 nights (that's why we didn't have time to sit on Santa's lap the night before.) She did much better the first night, but she was so cute on both. I think she enjoyed herself, but everybody's glad that it's over.

 This wasn't really a Christmas recital, but we counted it because it was in December. They did a "Grease" production this year and all the girls did great.

 We treated her to Wendy's afterward because 1) she did so good and 2) because she was starving.

 DEC 14- Sleep under the Christmas Tree

 I thought this sounded so fun, but it really turned out to be a horrible idea. We left the tree lights on, which made it way too bright to sleep, and although we put down MANY LAYERS of padding, it did nothing to help us sleep comfortably. Not even Kaydance. In fact, she woke up at about 3 a.m. and asked me if she could just go get in her bed to finish sleeping... smart girl!

DEC 15- Do a service project

 We were scheduled to clean the church this morning, but since we didn't sleep great the night before under the tree, we let Trevor go and I stayed home while the kids slept in. So we ended up doing some chores at my mom's house. Sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, dishes. Nothing too extraordinary.

 DEC 16- Go to a Christmas Concert

 Trevor and his dad joined the Community Choir this year and this night was the concert. They did great.

 Kaydance is becoming a pretty good photographer. She took these last two pictures.

 DEC 17- Watch a Christmas movie with popcorn

 We decided on A Muppet's Christmas Carol. Classic.

 DEC 18- Make Christmas treats.

 Brownies with chocolate chips, fruity pebbles rice krispie treats, and no-bake cookies.

DEC 19- Deliver Christmas treats

 Kaydance helped me make the plates by punching holes around the edges and threading ribbon through. They turned out really cute.

We also went out and played in the snow. She loved making snow angels.

 DEC 20- Wrap presents.

 DEC 21- Drive around and look at Christmas lights.

 We decided to pop some popcorn and eat it in the car while we drove around. It was a great idea ( and gave us more popcorn to add to the already massive amount of it that we've eaten this season!) It was late by the time we got out of the house and the kids didn't last long.

DEC 22- Buy and donate items to the food bank.

 She was having a hard day today. The Food Bank was closed for the day, so we found a donation cart at one of the grocery stores and dropped it off there.

 DEC 23- Call and wish someone Merry Christmas

 She wanted to call Uncle Jordan, Aunt Jaicee, and her cousins, Naivie, Norah, Daphne and Clay

DEC 24- Open one present

 New Jammies, of course. Nolan wasn't too interested in opening anything so Kaydance helped every chance she could.

This was such a fun advent calendar for us. By the end though we were running ourselves pretty ragged. Trevor thinks I should just do 12 days next year. I might. At times it was stressful to get the activity done, but I think it was well worth it and helped us get in the Christmas mood!