12 days of christmas...

this is my absolute favorite time of the year. i love the music, the decorations, the shopping, the giving, the smells, the food....i could go on all night. one of the things i love the most is the time i get to spend with my family. i love my little girls and how excited they get to do all of the fun activities. to ensure that we didn't miss out on anything important i started a new thing this year with the 12 days of christmas. i made a cute little advent calendar to hang on my trees. these trees serve as year long decorating fun! i decorate them for holidays, birthdays and now they are put to good use once again. i made cute little cards with a number for each day and in the inside is an activity to do. they are usually pretty low key, but we get to spend good quality time with each other and that is so important to me. some of the activities are, on the first day we wrote letters to santa, 2nd day we made sugar cookies, 3rd we read christmas books around the christmas tree, 4th we watched a chrstmas movie and had popcorn, 5th went to the layton park lights. some of the other fun things we have planned to do is sing christmas carols, watch movie with hot chocolate (movie night is by far our favorite), paint christmas ornaments, make christmas cards, make a christmas craft, drive around neighborhoods looking for lights and make treats for the kids teachers. we have so much fun during the holidays and i am SO sad they are coming and going so quick! i can't believe how time flies! but i am always grateful after the holidays to get back to normal life. so everyone have a merry christmas! it is the best time of the year!