Christmas Countdown

I really wanted to do an activity each day to help us get into the spirit of Christmas a little more this year. So I made up a list of 24 different things to do each day. I was going to sew something for the count down but I found this super cute one at Joannes and couldn't pass up the thought of not having to do all the work myself only to be frustrated with the end result :0) So here is a list of the activities we did, I changed the order when I slipped them in the pockets and some of them I switched as we went if I knew it was going to be a busy day that day. (I can't say we got all of them done, and I didn't pictures of all of them, come on people no one has that much time during the month of December) We did have a lot of fun with it though!

Leave a comment if you want me to email my list to you.This picture is actually from my parents tree. We only have a little one that the kids can decorate and redecorate all month long. (let me tell you a little about this picture, so I read 3 different places on the internet about how to take this picture changing my ISO, and shutter speed, using a tripod, and a whole lot of other stuff that still doesn't make much sense to me. I worked on it for over an hour (obviously not with Ben). I finally gave up and ended up with a super ugly dark picture. I slipped it into Photoshop and adjusted the lighting a tiny bit and 15 seconds later I came up with this amazing picture done on auto mode. I'm not sure I will ever move out of auto mode!!!!!!!!!!!)

Sam hated the bubbles!!!!

Since we don't have snow in Orange County we made our own with old paper. The boys had a blast imagine what it will be like when they actually get to throw real snow :0)I hate gingerbread so we made a chocolate chip cookie man instead. We also made a few out of rice crispy treats too. Yummy!