Advent Calendar

In my post "Random Stuff" I talked about making an advent calendar for Christmas.  Not every day is something spectacular but some were pretty awesome.
Shepherds night.  On Dec 9th we had a night dedicated to learning about the shepherds.  We ate Greek pork Slovakia (which is the closest thing I could think of.. it does include a pita, after all!) but despite it's lack of authenticity, it was delicious!
Then we read a few stories, sang some songs, made a poster with our hand prints turned into sheep, and let the girls camp out in the living room with our new bunk-bed cots from the Sunstone Christmas gift. It was a very fun night!

I think this will become a new family tradition! 

 Some other fun things have included several Christmas movie nights, hot-chocolate included of course, driving around looking at Christmas lights--the kids especially loved Spanish Forks "Festival of Lights," and we've  made dinner for a family in the ward, delivered treats, and learned about various symbols of Christmas.  
We've made cards for Grandparent's and today we decorated an ornament for each of them.  

And one night we made a gingerbread house.

 And though it wasn't on the "calendar" we spent several nights hanging Christmas lights.

And last, but not least: just because it is funny

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