Every Monday night Dan and I try to have a Family Night where we spend time with our family doing something extra fun. We really try to make it different than any other night of the week. Tonight was extra fun for us and the kids. Any time candy is involved means fun for the little ones! It's a good thing they have a dentist for a father, 'cause they love their sweets! We started the night picking out our favorite Christmas music to listen to while we made our 'yearly' Gingerbread house. (I cheated and bought a kit from Costco this year) KJ looks forward to this every year. This year was fun because all the kids wanted to pitch in and help make it "pretty"! (in Olivia's words)
Getting started....
look how excited they are!
She was so cute and extra careful to make it 'pretty'!
The whole family pitching in.
Olivia kept kissing her "pretty" house, it was so sweet!
The finished product, they did pretty good huh?!
Another tradition in our family is that every night in December we do our Christmas Calendar countdown where the kids get to pick a treat out of the pocket. Tonight the kids drew the pocket with a tag for a Christmas book. Russell's Christmas Magic.
So before bed, Dan read the book to the kids, they loved it. But they love a book anytime, especially when Dad reads it to them!
I LOVE December!!
6 comments:
I love December, too! My kids love the gingerbread house thing as well. We've started doing a kit on Christmas eve. They love it. Yours turned out great! We reserve FHE nights for going to Costco and picking up a pizza from Cibelli's! That's what we did last night. Yours was way better!
That looks so fun! Im so glad Payton's event didnt get in the way of doing it. Livie is so cute with her "pretty"....looks good, cute Christmas countdown
what are you talking about not being crafty...your blog is so cute and I'm so excited that I get to see your little kids!! where did you get your cute advent calendar?
oops, didn't mean to delete yours Marnae, I was trying to cut and paste it so I could keep your address. uh-oh!
CUTE!!! I love it!!
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