One of our Advent activities was edible mangers. A cupcake paper was our manger then we filled it with pudding (don't know what that might represent!) and topped it with crushed Mini-Wheats for hay. We then made Baby Jesus out of marshmallows.
I hate that we made Baby Jesus look so scarey!
Riley decided to be Mary one night...
Such a good daddy reading to the Bible to his girls...
Last night our Advent activity was to drive around looking at Christmas lights. Well it was "lights out" for Josie so she missed out on the fun but the rest of us enjoyed ourselves. Phil mad a good point...it seems when we were kids everybody decorated their houses for Christmas but we noticed last night how that number has really dwindled. Is it the busyness of life that keeps people from decorating, the expense of the added electricity, who knows? It's kinda sad though.
Today, Daddy and Riley took some things to the recycling trailer which is conveniently parked just a few miles from our rural house. As a science teacher, Phil really feels it is important for us to recycle and to teach the importance of it to our girls.
Tonight we started our story "What God Wants For Christmas." I found this last year at a local Christian bookstore and it is wonderful. The book tells a different part of the nativity story every night and has a gift box to be opened with a character or symbol in each. We were a night behind so we read about the angel Gabriel and Mary tonight.
Josie even got involved!
More Christmas fun to come!
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