Quarenta Nueve/ cinquenta dos

One portrait of each kiddo...once a week..for one year

Johnny/ brother

Isabella/ dancer

Mateo/ paleontologist 

Cruz/ cuddler

Cinquenta Dos / Cinquenta Dos

One portrait of each child once a week for one year!

Johnny/ tubing

Bella/ snuggling

Mateo/ wishing 

Cruz/ clapping

Xoxo

Me

Quarenta Ocho / cinquenta dos

One portrait of each bunny...once a week... For one year.

Johnny/ on stage

Bella/ on stage

Mateo/ feeding dinosaurs

Cruz/ waking up

Holy cow it's December!!! Where's the advent?!

Did anyone one else get smacked in the face with December 1? Because insure did and because of it I was totally not prepared for the advent. Every year I make the kids an advent with treats and fun activities and phrases and quotes to reflect on what really makes Xmas...Christmas! My kids are honestly really grateful and never ask for much...and they have always looked forward to the countdown to Christmas more than the morning avalanche of gifts! For this reason I put a lot of effort into this! However this year with the late thanksgiving December 1 just popped up and I had to put together something quickly but still fantastic....I present to you the year of advent I almost ruined! 

I started with a large ish piece of balsa wood ...it's light and splinter free...easy

Gather materials...white lunch sacks...goodies...little gifts...cute tags to write activities on...

Make the list of activities and number them in the order that will make the activity conducive to the day...kept the activities easier on the big kids busy days...

Place tag and treat on treat per kiddo in each bag...

Hot glue each bag on the balsa and and a little garland for fun...

I hung ours where the little chubby ones can't get to...but where we can all see...enjoy...and countdown...

And this one wouldn't fall asleep..so we had some major multi tasking going on!

 Some of the activities included:

Random acts of kindness

Christmas cookies

Eat dinner in front of tree

Give flower to stranger

Sword fight with siblings

Whoppie cushion prank

fROZEN

String popcorn

Gingerbread house

Celebrate Mateo

Go see lights

Write a thank you to someone you love

Snowman craft

Home alone hot cocoa party

And much more Xmas fun

Xoxo

Me