Auburn's undefeated season - National Championship bound!
Anna's Lego "Wossy Noman"
Josh and Noah's Lionel Trains in two rooms
Noah getting Baby Moses stuck in his brain instead of Baby Jesus
Getting crafty making holiday wreaths and Jesse Tree ornaments
Watching a lot of Polar Express
Watching a lot of Beauty and the Beast
Josh sews Anna's play oven mitts
1st time doing a Jesse Tree
1st time putting up Christmas lights on the house
2 snows in December, 1st school closing to match
Josh's "I want a Hippopatomus for Christmas" fettish
Noah singing to Santa at Chad's Winter Wonderland
Noah singing with Santa at The Streets of Indian Lake
Noah starting breathing treatments again after 2 years off
Noah's ornament: A dachshund with Santa hat
Anna's ornament: A tu-tu dress on a hanger
Lowe's Gift-a-Thon (memo to me: don't bother next time)
Four shifts of gifts: My family, Us, Josh's family, Santa
Noah sings: Santa Cwas is Coming to Town, Away in a Manger
Anna sings Jingle Bells: "Jingle... Bell... Fun...Hey."
Anna sings Santa Claus is Coming to Town: "Cwy. Town."
Leaving Chewie home alone for the first extended amount of time
Spending Christmas Eve and after at Josh's parents
Seeing Johnmark and Amy again after a long, long time
Hayride to drop reindeer food around Ft. Green
1st FL trip that we didn't see Tania
Meeting Elizabeth and Shannon at last
Anna getting sick on the drive home
Disney World trip #3
Noah's favorite gifts: Bucket of knights, Light Saber, Dragon
Anna's favorite gifts: Tu-tu, "ummy (oven) mitts", Zhu-zhu pet
This year's Christmas card
This list makes me smile. I should make one with our memories.
ReplyDeleteI love that you made a Jesse Tree this year. How did it go?
I love even more that I finally got to hug you. :)
Some nights we had to power through it - considering the short attention span of our young 'uns. As we went along, we found quicker ways of getting the message across. Every night, Noah and Anna's anticipation built more and more - they took turns each night unwrapping the ornament of the night. I will probably use a different source for the little devotionals next year - or at least a compilation of different ones. I think there are probably more kid friendly ones out there.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate - we loved this. We loved the kids' attention on this every day of the Christmas season (whether they wanted to or not), and we will certainly do this every year from now on.
Next year, I will not use a tree, but will have a felt tree to hang on the wall with buttons all over to hang the ornaments on ... building up to the star on top Christmas day. :)