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Pulled out more of the Christmas stuff today, the kids were thrilled!

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I took these on the right days, just forgot to post them, oops!

333- Target, all by myself!

334- This is what we do with our magnetic snowman.

Advent Activities 2012

1 Sat- (tech rehearsal)  Letters To Santa
2 Sun- (photo shoot, rain permitting) Start Advent guide
3 Mon- Scavenger hunt for little present
4 Tues- (dress rehearsal) Have a Christmas dance party
5 Wed- Address and mail cards
6 Thurs- (preview performance) Elf Yourself
7 Fri- (family here, opening night) Fun Christmas snack (banana & strawberry candy canes or snow pea trees)
8 Sat- (performance) Trucker's parade
9 Sun- (performance) Lunch out with family
10 Mon- (performance) Another scavenger hunt (Christmas socks)
11 Tues- (cast party) Cast Party
12 Wed- Make ornaments
13 Thurs- Help wrap presents
14 Fri- Take silly "photo boot" pictures with fun Christmas props
15 Sat- Gingerbread Houses
16 Sun- Christmas with Piz, Papa, & family
17 Mon- Have hot chocolate with fun stirrers
18 Tues- (guitar?) Make snowflakes
19 Wed- Make a Christmas treat 
20 Thurs- Wrap teacher gifts
21 Fri- (last day of school) Drive around to look at lights
22 Sat-  Visit Santa (check to make sure he'll still be there) 
23 Sun- Bake Christmas cookies
24 Mon- Track Santa
25 Tues- Christmas!

Extras:
Hershey's kiss matching game
Christmas coloring pages
Christmas Madlibs

Past Advent Activities

More for my benefit than anything else.  I'll be posting my list for this year soon! :)

2011:
1 Thurs- Name your elf
2 Fri- Craft fair with Piz & Papa
3 Sat- Get Tree
4 Sun-
5 Mon- Letters To Santa
6 Tues- Help wrap presents
7 Wed- Turn yourselves into elves
8 Thurs- Address and mail cards
9 Fri- Play @ church
10 Sat- Trucker's Parade
11 Sun- Mackenzie's Dance/Christmas with my family
12 Mon- Scavenger hunt
13 Tues- Eureka Inn Tree (after dentist)
14 Wed- Make Christmas Treat
15 Thurs- Put together teacher gifts
16 Fri- Make decorations
17 Sat-  Gingerbread Houses
18 Sun-  Read Luke 2
19 Mon- Scavenger hunt
20 Tues- Make ornaments
21 Wed- Drive around to look at lights
22 Thurs- make Christmas cookies
23 Fri- have hot chocolate with fun stirrers
24 Sat- Track Santa
25 Sun- Christmas!

Elf Yourself
Gingerbread house
Have hot cocoa with candy cane stirrers
Drive around to see lights
Make decorations
Make ornaments
snowman/reindeer project on pinterest
address and mail cards
scavenger hunt (x2)
Make Christmas cookies
Read Luke 2




2010:
1 Wed- Write letters to Santa
2 Thurs- Debbie & Marty's (gift exchange)
3 Fri- Address and mail cards
4 Sat- Christmas Tea for girls, Ryan w/ grandpa
5 Sun- Decorate tree
6 Mon- Make gingerbread house
7 Tues- scavenger hunt (coloring books)
8 Wed- Make decorations
9 Thurs- Elf Yourself
10 Fri- Play night, family here
11 Sat- M's Night Before Christmas dance
12 Sun- Charlie Brown play
13 Mon- Eureka Inn Tree
14 Tues- Have hot cocoa with candy cane stirrers
15 Wed- Read a Christmas book
16 Thurs- make ornaments
17 Fri- scavenger hunt (Grinch DVD)
18 Sat- Make Christmas cookies
19 Sun- Crab feed with Nana & Zack
20 Mon- Read Luke 2
21 Tues- make Crunchy the Snowman
22 Wed-
23 Thurs-
24 Fri- Track Santa
25 Sat- Christmas!


2009:
1 Tues- letters to Santa
2 Wed- small group Christmas party
3 Thurs- address and mail cards
4 Fri- Visit Em and Brooke after school
5 Sat- make gingerbread house
6 Sun- Shopping
7 Mon- Wrap presents
8 Tues- A Charlie Brown Christmas (8pm ABC)
9 Wed- Church...
10 Thurs- Elf Yourself
11 Fri- Craft
12 Sat- Trucker's Parade
13 Sun- Visit Santa
14 Mon- scavenger hunt (Santa's elves came to check up on you and left a present, fallow the clues to find it...)
15 Tues-
16 Wed- M's Christmas program
17 Thurs-
18 Fri- Last day of school
19 Sat- Make Christmas Cookies
20 Sun- Drive around to see Christmas lights
21 Mon- Dinner/Christmas w/ my family
22 Tues-
23 Wed- Nana & Zack here??
24 Thurs- Track Santa
25 Fri- Christmas!


2008:
1 Mon- start decorating house
2 Tues- write letter to Santa
3 Wed- small group
4 Thurs- Debbie & Marty's
5 Fri- address and mail cards
6 Sat- get tree and decorate
7 Sun- finish decorating house
8 Mon- watch A Charlie Brown Christmas (8pm on ABC)
9 Tues- Christmas Craft with Mommy
10 Wed- shop for presents after school (ask Piz if she can come help)
11 Thurs- wrap presents
12 Fri- watch Frosty & Frosty returns (8pm on CBS)
13 Sat- Trucker's Parade
14 Sun- make gingerbread house
15 Mon- watch I want a Dog for Christmas Charlie Brown (8pm on ABC)
16 Tues-
17 Wed- small group
18 Thurs- Ryan's Christmas Program (7pm)
19 Fri- Mackenzie's last day of school (party?)
20 Sat- Watch Polar Express DVD
21 Sun- drive around to see Christmas lights
22 Mon- make Christmas cookies
23 Tues- make cheesecakes & watch the Grinch Cartoon (8pm ABC)
24 Wed- Christmas eve @ Tom & Karin's with Nana & Zack
25 Thurs- CHRISTMAS!!

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Hot Cross Buns...

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The kids favorite thing about shopping the sales online? Making cars out of the boxes!

Start of the Week Stuff

I had a semi-productive morning with the kids back to school today, but the afternoon is not turning out to be the same.  Oh well, at least I got some stuff done.  

To-Do's:
Monday- get things back in order now that the kids are back in school, start decorating for Christmas
Tuesday- orthodontist for M, guitar for R
Wednesday- work in R's class, Grinch rehearsal
Thursday- nothing :)
Friday- mom's night out
Saturday- tech rehearsal
Sunday- church, Costco, pictures (pray it doesn't rain!)


Menu:
Monday- breakfast
Tuesday- slow cooker ham & white beans with cornbread
Wednesday- homemade pizza
Thursday- oven baked Frito pie
Friday-
Saturday-
Sunday-

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Decorating the tree, right before they knocked it over.

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Cutting down our Christmas tree.

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Helping with some yard work.

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Happy Thanksgiving!!

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Making cranberry sauce (and apple pie and stuffing). Can't wait to eat it tomorrow!

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Matching PJs after watching The Grinch.

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Doctor, Doctor at home group tonight.

Start of the Week Stuff

I'm so happy that the kids have this week off!  Not only are they out of school, but they don't have rehearsals either.  Ahh...


To-Do's for the week:
Monday- grocery shopping, post office, home group
Tuesday- guitar for R, Grinch movie with friends
Wednesday- nothing! :) (or Thanksgiving prep...)
Thursday- Thanksgiving here
Friday- stop by band rehearsal for M (not a big deal compared to normal rehearsals)
Saturday- getting our tree! :)
Sunday- church, Costco


Menu:
Monday- hot dogs and sweet potato fries
Tuesday- chicken enchaladas
Wednesday- breakfast
Thursday- turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, biscuits, ect... :)
Friday- leftovers
Saturday- tomato tortellini soup (adding sausage this time)
Sunday- salmon with parmesan mayo crust (I will be using store-bought mayo though) with something else

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Watching a video of Beagle puppies. ❤

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Thanksgiving at Papa Tucker & Grammy Terry's.

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My view this morning. Snuggles and our favorite mouse. ❤

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N decided he needed to ice his ankle after dinner (and his neck, and face, and tongue...).

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Six hours of Grinch stuff tonight. It's going to be so good though!!

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We got to watch A today. :)

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The kids were off today, the house was messy.

Start of the Week Stuff

I've been slacking on doing this post.  I've done pretty well with a menu still, but I need to get back to posting it, if nothing else so I can look back at it when I need ideas. :)

To-Do's: (busy week!)
Monday- no school, lazy morning, laundry, menu planning, editing, grocery shopping
Tuesday- A here, guitar for R
Wednesday- work in R's class, filming for The Grinch, long Grinch rehearsal
Thursday- Grinch open house in Henderson Center
Friday- early release for the kids
Saturday- tech rehearsal (I've heard they run LONG), Thanksgiving at Matthew's dad's
Sunday- 2&3 year old room at church, Costco

Menu:
Monday- mini frittatas and biscuits
Tuesday- pasta with meat sauce
Wednesday-out???
Thursday- turkey sandwiches
Friday- calzone
Saturday- turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes :)
Sunday- ?

Scrap Stuff

Britt had a new kit out Friday, but my computer monitor died, so I couldn't post it until now. 
Anyway, the new kit was just what I was needing!  I'd been trying to scrap my BTMRR pictures for a couple weeks, and I was having such a hard time with them.  The Wildest Kit In The Wilderness was just perfect! :) 
Here's my page:

 

 full credits here

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Tag with cousins.

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Sitting on the couch this afternoon, this was my view. :)

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Daddy got out his toy, the kids loved it.

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Rainy day movie in the van while we wait for M to get out of school. Somebody didn't want his picture taken. ❤

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And so it begins... had to stay late at rehearsal to get a photo of Cindy and The Grinch for the newspaper.

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Took these crazy boys with me to drop off our ballots.

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Successfully transferred a stroller nap to the car seat... and then sat in the car in the driveway for 45 minutes because I didn't want to push my luck trying to move him inside.

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Going for a bike ride/walk this afternoon.

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Crazy kids.

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So stylish this morning (other than the mismatched socks, which she thinks are cool).

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Pajama day at school today.