Christmas Countdown

Dec 1st - Made these cereal wreaths and went to Bryce's Joy school nativity program

Dec 2nd - Went to Old fashioned Christmas were the kids had tons of fun!

Dec 3rd - Finished wrapping presents and watched Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer as a family

Dec 4th - Watched 1st Presidency Christmas Devotional

Dec 5th - Went skating as a family

Dec 6th - Put together the foam gingerbread house

Dec 7th - Wrote letters to Santa

 Dec 8th - Made Dangling Snowman (picture down below) Bryce wasn't interested so Jaycie made one side and I did the other. It was our mother/daughter snowman we called it.

Dec 9th - Ward Christmas Party

Dec 10 - Played Christmas Bingo and made Candy Cane popcorn to deliver to friends for gifts

Dec 11 - Made santa hats for last day of parent preschool party

Dec 12 - Nativity scene made out of candy

Dec 13 - Shaving Cream Snowman

Dec 14th - Missed this day...

Dec 15th - Made snowflake tortillas. We put coloured sugar on them as they were baking. Pretty and yummy.

Dec 16th - Christmas Tree Pizza  for pizza and movie night (Didn't take a picture but got the idea from here) Went sledding too!

Dec 17th - Crystal Snowflakes (didn't take a picture of these either, they were so cool though)

Dec 18th - Drove around and saw Christmas lights around town

Dec 19th - Went over to Alexis Pratt's house with a bunch of other women and dipped chocolates and caramels and oreos and pretzels and cream puffs and cookies and cinnamon bears and made Oreo bark and candy cane bark and more chocolates and Oreo truffles and peanut butter balls and I'm sure I'm missing something. It was so fun to work together and chat and make lots of yummy goodies and then come home with a huge assortment.

Dec 20th - Jaycie's school Christmas program

Dec 21 - did the kids handprints on ornaments and Shanelle's handprint and foot print. (picture down below)

Bryce snuggling with his sister. Random picture, so decided to throw it in there.

Dec 22 - Made the  melting snowmen cookies for Jaycie's class Christmas party.  Jaycie said all the kids thought they were super yummy and fun to eat. Got lots of compliments on them. They were a hit!

Dec 23 - Decorated Gingerbread cookies (my great great grandmother's recipe) and went to the Live Nativity and then out to eat for Erin's birthday. The Live Nativity and going out to eat has been a tradition in my family since we were just little.  It's fun that we still do it even though we are all grown and gone from home. I love traditions.

I gave the kids free reign this year and they decorated them by themselves. Of course I still did a few too. Jaycie had fun trying out different decorating tips and seeing what patterns and things they made/did. Super fun to see what they created on their own. We made some gingerbread pirates this year too from the book we read - Gingerbread Pirates. One of the kids favourites this year that we read in our book countdown.

Jaycie's handprint at night

Shanelle's handprint. (that was hard to get! Tried it twice, once when she was awake and then again when she was sleeping. She still squirmed while sleeping but still got it pretty good. Love these ornaments, they will be cherished for years to come.

Bryce's handprint

Jaycie's handprint

Shanelle's footprint

Dangling snowman - Mother side

Dangling Snowman - Daughter side