Days 9 & 10

Day 9: Our activity was to go ride the Christmas train. It's at this couple's house in Richardson, and it's free...so we couldn't pass it up. It wasn't crowded, and it goes around the track for a while. Harper had a blast!

About to go for our ride

Our friends, Caroline and Brian came with us!

There are a lot of lights and different characters to look at

According to Harper, this dancing Santa was "creepy"!

Posing with Mickey

Day 10: We went to Santa's Village in Richardson. It's a neat little area with different houses for kids to go in and participate in activities. Thankfully, Harper didn't know what was in each house, so we went to the ones with short lines. She had a great time going into the houses, but I think her favorite part was taking pictures with the dressed up characters.

Getting a cookie from Mrs. Claus

She loved having her picture with Beary...whoever that is!

Sitting with Sparky

She also enjoyed sitting on the dalmatians

More fun with the dalmatians

Not interested in trying on the firefighter gear, so she just took a picture in front of their tree

Mailing her letter to Santa

Meeting Frosty

The view sweet Taylor had for the evening...she looked quite comfy!

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Days 7 & 8

Day 7: We went and bought a new Christmas book. I had seen this one a few weeks ago, so that's the one she got. It uses the rhyming of "The night before Christmas" but is about Jesus' birth.




Day 8: Her activity was to pick out a Christmas gift for her teacher. She said she wanted to get her a doll, so that's exactly what we did. I'll obviously include something with the gift too. But since I wanted her to learn how to pick something out for someone else, I wasn't going to say no to her idea. So next week, Ms Gigi will be the proud owner of a Belle doll!



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Days 5 & 6...

For day 5, her original activity was to pick out some Christmas candy at the store, but I went to the store by myself on Sunday. So I picked some out, and on Monday, she got to put the candy in our star bowl. Sounds exciting, huh?!? Surprisingly, she loved it...probably because she got to eat some at the end!







For Day 6, we went to see Santa. She ran right up to him, told him her name, and that she wanted 2 dolls! We got a cute picture too, but since I only have the hard copy, here's the one from my phone...





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Days 3 and 4...

For Day 3, Harper got to open her new nativity and set it up. She has played with it for hours upon hours!!! I highly recommend this nativity!




Our Day 4 activity was to make Christmas tree pizza together. This is another tradition I grew up doing. However, we would always eat it on the night we decorated the tree. Since we already did that, I figured it would be a great Sunday lunch! It's pretty simple, but Harper loved it!








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Advent activities...

I thought it would be fun to do some sort of activity each day with Harper to lead up to Jesus' birth. Some are fun for her, but most are to help others. Here's the calendar I made...



And here is what we've done so far...

Day 1: Harper got to open a new ornament. Growing up, my mom would give us each an ornament that represented something we did that year. I still love looking at them when I'm at my mom's house. So we are doing the same thing with our kids! This is Harper's 2011 ornament...




Day 2: Tonight we went to the mall to choose an angel from the angel tree. Harper enjoyed picking out clothes and toys for her angel.


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Christmas at Thanksgiving...

We celebrated 2 holidays in one week and had our Christmas with Corby's family today. Harper's highlight would be her new baby doll. She named her Mary, as in the mother of Jesus. Somebody is truly in the Christmas spirit! Taylor also got a baby doll, and I've never seen anything more precious. She loved it! She grabbed it immediately! Since her doctor has many concerns regarding her health, I get so excited when she does anything on track developmentally. Harper also got told that she gets to take a trip to Disney World in February, and since she doesn't know what that means, she didn't act too excited! She has no idea what's coming!!! I don't have many pictures...but I do have a few of T and her baby!



All smiles about her new doll!


Floor time just got more exciting!


And this tiny bird was named "baby Jesus"...and she made sure Mary had it at all times!


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Happy Thanksgiving!

We're having a great time with family this week! Harper loves being with her cousins, and Taylor is loving all of the extra attention! Uncle Jeff has loved snuggling with her and she will sit with him for hours!

We definitely have a lot to be thankful for this year! The Lord has blessed us immensely this year...we certainly would've missed out on a whole lot had we not listened and followed him!


Happy Thanksgiving from our girls!


And this one is loving her first Thanksgiving!!!

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