Christmas Countdown

The girls love counting down until Jesus' birthday, and for the past 3 years we've been using an advent calendar to help us do this along with our Jesse tree that brings us together each night to read out of our Jesus Storybook Bible.  Each morning the girls come downstairs for breakfast and pull out something fun from that day's advent calendar pocket.  We made Christmas cookies for our neighbors, watched a Christmas movie while drinking hot cocoa, wore new jammies to bed, delivered sweet treats to our nearby firefighters, made blessing bags for the needy, and more.  Here are some photos of some of our other activities leading up to JC's birthday.

Decorating the tree

She was directing the positioning of the ornaments

Ready for their Christmas performance at school

And here is the Star of Bethlehem

We braved the cold to go see the Trail of Lights in Austin

Mimi had her hands full

Trying to stay warm.  "Are we almost done?"

On our way for a Mommy date to see The Nutcracker

Making our own wrapping paper

Helping us wrap some gifts

Daddy's prepping the gingerbread houses

Our taste testers are ready to decorate

"One for me, one for ...."