1st Advent
Our family celebrates the German Advents. It's a tradition we continued from my family growing up. The 4 Sundays leading up to Christmas we try to do a fun activity or something special and light a candle on our Advent wreath. We I also recite the Advent poem in German while Jerry makes random noises pretending that it's German. He promises that someday he'll learn it. For the 1st advent we watched the 1st Presidency Christmas Devotional while the kids did some Christmas crafts. It was a very fun night.
Purdue Christmas Concert
Jerry and I were able to go on a fun date to the Purdue Christmas Concert. It was a very fun night and lots of fun music. It really helped us get into the Holiday Spirit.
2nd Advent
For the 2nd advent we made Christmas sugar cookies. The kids were lots of help and we had a great time. My original idea was to give some out to neighbors, but once they were done and there was some cookie to go along with the sprinkles I decided it would be better not to give those out. They were really.....colorful. They did taste great though(:
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| Lots and Lots and LOTS of sprinkles!! |
3rd and 4th Advent
The 3rd advent fell on Hayden's birthday/baptism weekend. John and Sara came up for the weekend. We had a great weekend - more on that later. They left Sunday night and we were exhausted from a fun, busy weekend so we celebrated the advent by watching Christmas movies.
The 4th advent was the day before Christmas Eve. We drove out to a home that has Christmas lights choreographed to Christmas music. It was a little stressful getting there, and our radio in our car must not be the best because at first we could barely get any reception, but once we could hear it was great - even with the kids literally jumping around in the back of the van.
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| Chocolate face! |
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| She really loved this chair - just her size! |
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| One last trip to the mall the Saturday before Christmas. We crammed all 4 kids onto one ride. I'd say we got the most out of our $.75 |
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