Friday, December 20, 2013

Getting Ready for Christmas

Our weeks towards the end of the year were full of activities that helped prepare us for Christmas and celebrate the season.  Advent calendars, a Jesse tree, Christmas crafts...we stayed busy, but we tried to also keep our family's focus on Christ.

Donating shoeboxes to Operation Christmas Child filled for a 2-4 year old boy and a 5-9 year old girl.  We included information sheets for the recipients, and Claire was able to fill out one herself this year!  We chose to track our boxes and found out that they went to kids in Columbia.
OCC collage

Decorating our tree while Daddy was on a mission trip to Reynosa
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Enjoying yummy treats - lots of baking and hot chocolate!  We took some of the snickerdoodles, chocolate pretzel cookies, and browned butter crispies to the fire station and got to check out the fire trucks while we were there.
Baking Collage

Hot Chocolate

MOPS playdate at Clay Casa.  Most of the kids painted ornaments or cookie plates; Will chose a "spider tarantula".  :)
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Painting ornaments
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Having fun at Bass Pro Shop
Bass Pro Carousel

Bass Pro

Polar Express day at Claire's school - they got to wear their pajamas that day, and also for their party on the last day of the semester
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Will brought home lots of Christmas art projects from school - these were two of my favorites.
Will's Art


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