A new Christmas tradition

Thanks to my friend Erin, we have a new tradition in our family. She had the great idea to use an advent calender and plan a family activity everyday in December leading up to Christmas. I took the boys to Target and let them pick one out. This is the one that they finally agreed upon.

Every day the boys got to open a new door to see what we would be doing that day. They absolutely loved this, and it was really nice to focus more on our family and doing things together. Some of the things we did were:

-Watch a Christmas movie in our PJ's

-Delivered goodies to friends and neighbors

-Made this cute foam gingerbread house

-Made Christmas cards to send to our family in Costa Rica

-Went to see Christmas lights with Grandmas and Grandpas

-Made snowflakes

-Took the boys to buy gifts for each other

-Let the boys have a "campout" next to the Christmas tree

-Baked a candy cane cinnamon roll

-Disneyland...so fun during the holidays!

-Sang carols by the fire, the boys LOVE to sing Christmas songs!

-And of course we had to do a real gingerbread house!

Thanks again Erin, it's so nice to have creative friends!