First some backstory for anyone that may be new to our little blog. For 4 years running now we have spent December doing what we refer to as "Christmas Advent Activities." These are basically just an activity a day related to the Christmas season that we do as a sort of countdown to the big day. We love traditions in this family and this is just one more that we have started up with our little family unit over the years. The activities are mostly the same year after year just rearranged to fit into our busy schedule. Every year we seem to add a new thing or two, but mostly we keep to a specific list as there are certain things we like to get done. Then, for the last two years, we have had a helper. Kenny, our elf, was adopted two (or was it three?) years ago and the kids think he is hilarious. For the last couple of years, he brought the activities and "told" us what to do each day but we let the kids know that he passed the baton to us at the end of last season a...
Our life as a family of four (Plus one dog)