25 Days

we began the month with a goal: do something Christmasy every day of december before Christmas day. unfortunately, the month didn't quite go as planned. on some days we did multiple activities and other days we did nothing. some things were put off for next year and other things were made up on the spot. and a lot of Christmas movies were forced to be counted. we did a few other things as well i would count, but these are the ones i could get pictures for. hopefully in the future we can be better about sticking to our original plans, but it was still a fun month, full of fun activities. :)

1. visit temple square in salt lake city and look at all the lights
2. put up the Christmas tree and decorate it
3. watch 'how the grinch stole Christmas'
4. drink some hot chocolate/ apple cider
5. make our yearly ornament for our tree
6. buy a new Christmas movie and watch - this year it was a set with frosty, rudolph, and others
7. bake cookies and give away to our friends - mostly ate them though, sorry :)
8. attend our ward Christmas dinner/ talent show
9. read 'the polar express'
10. watch 'a Christmas story'
11. go up to idaho for heidi's graduation
12. post our Christmas card on our blog
13. watch 'a charlie brown Christmas'
14. buy a Christmas popcorn tin and eat it
15. go to the festival of lights down in spanish fork
16. watch 'a boyfriend for Christmas'
17. read the december 'ensign'
18. make snowmen - we unfortunately didn't get any snow, so we had to make them out of craft paper, which was a lot of fun still and we stayed warm
19. watch 'elf'
20. make gingerbread houses
21. go to church with lindy, amber's sister, who wrote and arranged several wonderful songs that the choir performed during sacrament meeting
22. watch 'it's a wonderful life'
23. eat a wonderful Christmas breakfast amber made
24. read 'luke 2'
25. open presents :)