Christmas at Home

We had a simple Christmas at home before heading out on a two week trip to visit family.

It was really fun to see how excited Liam was about all of our Christmas adventures this year.

Of course he LOVED opening presents, 

but he also loved the Nativity Story.

We talked about the nativity every day in December.

He was seriously bummed that we took all of our decorations down when we got home...

He was especially sad to pack up Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus :)

We also had our first Advent Calendar this year.

Every day we talked about the meaning of Advent, and Jesus' birth before opening our special activity for that day.

I think that was my favorite Christmas memory this year.

Liam still asks at least a couple times a week when we can do Advent again.

I took that as a good sign :)

What an honor it is to teach our children who Jesus is.

Seriously...we couldn't get the kids to look, so we gave up.

Scrapbooks should be filled with real life, right?

I'll just keep the paper.

Liam got a LeapPad for Christmas.

We were holding out on introducing technology to him, but that didn't last very long.

It was pretty handy for the 9 hour trip to Glendive.

P.S.  

We never sent out our Christmas Cards this year.

They are still sitting on our counter.

How embarrassing.

Be expecting a random Merry Christmas from us at some point this year!