Happy Advent

I love December.

It holds my favorite holiday.  One full of childhood memories and ones that I've made as an adult.

The grandest tradition we've established as a family is to celebrate December and the coming of Christmas by doing an Advent activity every day of the month leading up to Christmas Day.

Some are pretty simple (take a winter hike) and some are more elaborate (crafts, concerts, etc).

Here are a few peeks at our fun this year, so far:

Decorate the tree:

The four kids!  We do know the name of this littlest of girls....but we're waiting until she's here to announce it.

Sugar on Snow:

Rice Krispy Treat "Gingerbread" Houses:

Dinner at The Pie Pizzeria and to Temple Square to see the lights:

It started blizzarding and it took us.....wait for it.....THREE hours (and chains on our tires) to get home.  Gulp.

Christmas Concert with The Mormon Tabernacle Choir:

We saw "Gimli"!!!

Making Yarn Balloons:

This one was sort of a flop.  

Making Tissue Paper Lanterns for our Solstice Walk:

These came out spectacularly!