Advent Envelopes

Just wanted to give you a brief update of our Advent Envelopes.

Day 1-  Welcome to the Christmas Season!  Enjoy some cinnamon rolls for breakfast (on a school day).  Tonight we will have a Christmas decoration scavenger hunt.  (Scavenger hunt in action above.  10-Santas, 8-reindeer, and the word "NOEL" were some of the things on the list.)

Day 2-  Candy Cane Hunt. 

Day 3- Make a gingerbread house.

Day 4-Work on Christmas puzzles with Dad.  (This continues because I bought a pack of 10 puzzles.  They have finished 3 and are working right now as I type.

Day 5-Watch ELF.  My favorite.

Day 6-Make Christmas cards to take to Nana and her friends (Nana is my 89 year old grandmother who lives at an assisted living home) and our neighborhood firemen.

Day 7-Read the real Christmas story.  Luke 2:1-20.

Day 8-Shop at Wal-mart to fill our Salvation Army stocking.  We picked a baby.  This way we did not have to go to the toy department at all and they could focus on the giving part of the exercise.

Day 9-Go to the drive-thru Bethlehem at the church up the street.

Day 10-Family game Night.

So that's where we are.  We have also read our book every night.  The kids are really enjoying opening a book "present" each night. I'll leave you with this...