Fourth Day of Christmas Celebration 2012

We have continued to keep up with our Christmas Festivities. K and R have been helping me decorate more ornaments for their Felt Christmas Trees. Since it is taking so long to make all of them we have decided that this year they will get their bag of ornaments and we will add to them as we decorate more, and they can decorate their trees as they wish. Each girl's tree will hang on their bedroom door with their plastic bag of ornaments attached next to it. Our new additions to our felt ornaments are:

Light Blue Rectangle (present)

White Snowflake

 

 Orange Oval (ornament)

Black Square (box of coal)

 

Sunday morning we went with my parents to their church's Annual Breakfast with Santa. K and R both sat nicely on Santa's lap and even told him one thing they would like for Christmas.

 

There some raffles set up with arts, crafts and a few DVDs and we are very thankful that K won one of the baskets. We decided we are going to keep all of the goodies and use them as necessary and save the DVD to watch as a family on Christmas Eve before bed.

 

Sunday night we took K and R for a trip around town to look at the lights on different houses and in the down town area. We plan to take another trip out later this week.

 

Monday night (last night) we took both of the girls with us to the zoo to see their Lights Before Christmas show since the weather was so warm. K was a little upset that none of the animals were out but quickly got distracted by all the lights and different animations that were going on. The zoo even had an area of trees that would light up in sync with various Christmas songs. This is the girl's favorite area and they even started dancing together. It was so nice to see all of the innocent children dancing without a care. Here is a picture of K and R dancing! They must have been moving fast because every picture I got was blurry. 

 

 

This morning while I was searching the internet for fun activities for the kids I came across the website: www.freelettersfromsantaclaus.com This website comes with templates that you can customize for each child. They have the option of e-mailing or downloading the letters for FREE. I made one up for both K and R and had it sent to my e-mail. I plan on reading these letters to them tomorrow morning. I cannot wait to see how they react to receiving their very first letters from Santa!

 

We have some more family fun planned for the upcoming weeks and only a few more felt ornaments to finish up before we can move onto our next crafting project. I am also continuing to prepare for our journey with letter of the week! What busy weeks we have ahead!