Advent Calendar

A few of you had asked for instructions on our advent calendar. Unfortunately the box we made was a scrap booking kit at Target last year, but this is a great time of year to get one on clearance. I just saw a wood one at Target tonight that was only $8.oo. I was so tempted to buy it only because it was such a good deal (unfortunately I'm good at buying things that are a great deal that I don't need). Here is a list of thing we did each day if anyone would like to copy it. We copied it from a friends blog last year (thanks again Jamie) and we had so much fun doing it this year. This is what we came up with:

Day 1: Wrote a letter to Santa

Day 2: Made Gingerbread Men (Gingerbread houses would be even better)

Day 3: Read A Christmas story together

Day 4: Made paper snowflakes

Day 5: Called Grandma to sing her a Christmas Carol

Day 6: Put up our Nativity and read the story of Jesus birth

Day 7: See who can eat a candy cane the fastest without biting

Day 8: Take a silly family picture

Day 9: Santa Craft (I just found something easy on the internet)

Day 10: Make a Christmas treat

Day 11: Share the Christmas treat with someone and door bell ditch them

Day 12: Drink eggnog and share a Christmas memory

Day 13: Make popcorn and watch a Christmas movie

Day 14: Drive to see the lights

Day 15: Color a Christmas picture

Day 16: Drink hot chocolate by candle light

Day 17: Call another Grandma and sing her a Christmas Carol

Day 18: Go out for a special treat

Day 19: Play M&M game (the one where you roll the dice and when you get 7 or 11 you suck by straw Christmas colored M&M's until another person rolls 7 or 11)

Day 20: Read a Christmas story together

Day 21: Went to see a live Nativity (Our favorite one by far)

Day 22: We were off to Utah to visit family

You can of course make this to fit your family. We had to change a few days here and there because making snowmen and sledding were on the list. I'd like to see us try to do that here in Vegas. Like I said before we absolutely loved ours. I just wish we had taken more pictures along the way. There is always next year I suppose.