Advent Calendar

We got this fun advent calendar last year from my sis-in-law who got it at Restoration

Hardware. This is the first year we get to use it, but I thought I would let you see what is

going inside each day! The boys get to take turns opening and I don't put it in until the night

before while they are sleeping so they won't open them all in one day when I am not looking! (Like I used to do as a kid!)

Oops...I still have one day to fill in....still thinking about that one!

DEC. 1- Go buy annual Family Christmas Books.
DEC. 2- Make Christmas CD, deliver copies to people./Watch
1st Presidency Devotional.
DEC. 3- Go on a drive to see the Holiday Lights.
Talk about Jesus’s characteristics and 3 ways we
can be more like him.
DEC. 4- Teach Austin to tie his shoes and Max to put on and
take off his shirt. Write down 3 things about each
family member that you love about them.
DEC. 5- Do a Random Act of Kindness for a neighbor
or friend or stranger today.
DEC. 6-Watch the Grinch and eat popcorn.
DEC. 7- Do something nice for someone in our family today.
DEC. 8- Go buy yearly ornament for each kid for the kid’s tree.
Participate in the Angel Tree program at the mall.
(Take the Christmas jar money!)
DEC. 9- Draw photos and nice notes to Christy
DEC. 10- Make Hot Fudge Sauce and deliver it.
DEC. 11- AUSTIN’S BIRTHDAY! Everyone has to give him 8
hugs, 8 kisses, and 8 birthday spankings! Tell Austin how much you

love him by drawing him a picture or writing him a letter.

DEC. 12- Decorate the Gingerbread House. Do something nice
for someone in your house today.
DEC. 13- AUSTIN GETS BAPTIZED TONIGHT!
READ JESUS’S BAPTISM STORY!
DEC. 14- Sleep under the tree and adults share stories of
Christmastime when they were kids.
DEC. 15-ELLA'S SPECIAL DAY AND BABY BLESSING!
Tell Ella how much you love her by writing her a letter or

drawing her a picture.
DEC. 16- Go See the Temple Lights
DEC. 17- Snuggle up with Blankets and hot chocolate in a fort
built by us and ready our collection of Christmas Books
by flashlight.
DEC. 18- Make nini’s custard and write notes to grandparents.
DEC. 19-
DEC. 20- Go visit Santa Claus and take photos.
DEC. 21- Give cash surprise in a tip to someone at Denny’s or
wherever who is working the graveyard shift.
DEC. 22- Watch Luke 2 DVD to Breath of Heaven by Amy Grant.
DEC. 23- Make and Decorate Cookies for Santa.
DEC. 24- OPEN PJ’s & read the Night Before Christmas & the
Nativity with Children’s Nativity pieces.
DEC. 25- HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS! Tell Jesus how much
you love him by writing it down or drawing a picture.