Our countdown has begun... It's December!

Our countdown has begun!!!

Christmas trees... check

House decorations... check

New advent activity... check

95 % of our Christmas shopping done... check!!! Whoop! Whoop!

More time to spend relaxing with the fam... checking off our Winter To Do List... currently doing so!!! Wawhoo!

Our Annual Christmas Tree Hunting Adventure... So. Much. Fun. Family, Kiddos playing in the snow, finding that perfect tree, sipping hot cocoa, warming up by the fire, roasting marshmallows... it really doesn't get any merrier than that! :)

Five of these photos will be featured on our Christmas card this year... so for those of you who regularly read our blog, you get a first sneak peek at all of our photos! :)

This year we decided to add another fun advent activity for the kiddos to do every day leading up to Christmas morning... we have a cute little advent calendar that our kiddos have fun taking turns jumping little ginger bread man from date to date... but this year we wanted to add something new.  Each day they get to pick a wrapped gift... these gifts include homemade snow globes (with each kiddos pic inside of one) Christmas books, Christmas movies, new ornaments, Christmas crafts, pre-paid tickets for fun family outings and a few activity ideas to do for that evening. 

We kicked off our first countdown with the kiddos opening their homemade snow globes this morning...

Here are the snow globes... such a fun craft!

Moments before the big reveal! 

 Checking out their snow globes!

 Riley with his new snow globe...

 Pure joy on Ellie's face!

 Brody especially loved the green sparkles in his snow globe!

And Kenzie loved all of the pink sparkles in hers!

Each day will bring something new! A fun way to kick off our holiday season with lots of merriment!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!