Saturday, December 1, 2012

December Holidays Coming Up

December's a big one for celebrating- mostly because of Christmas.  Here are links to posts we've written about ways we've celebrated.

December 13 is National Cocoa Day.
December 13, 2011- Cocoa Day 2011

December 24 is Christmas Eve and December 25 is Christmas.
December 13, 2010- Catch of the Day
December 15, 2010- Quick, Hide Your Red Nose
December 19, 2010- Santa!
December 23, 2010- Polar Express Party
December 24, 2010- Merry Christmas 2010
December 25, 2010- Merry Christmas from the Telfords
January 8, 2011- Handmade Christmas Gifts
December 21, 2011- KAT's Kreation
December 23, 2011- It's a Train
December 24, 2011- Merry Christmas 2011
December 30, 2011- Past and Present
January 5, 2012- In No Particular Order...
January 11, 2012- Handmade Christmas Gifts 2011

December 31 is New Year's Eve
December 31, 2009- A Little Taste of Hungary
January 1, 2010- Happy New Year- Happy Cheeseball
December 30, 2010- Not Just For Guacamole
December 31, 2011- Happy New Year!

Advent Calendar
For the past few years, our family has been doing a Countdown to Christmas/Advent Calendar.  The first year, we focused on the counting down (or up) and having an activity to do every day as a family.
December 1, 2009- Advent Calendar
December 2, 2009- Advent Calendar- December 2nd
December 3, 2009- Advent Calendar- December 3rd
December 4, 2009- Advent Calendar- December 4th
December 5, 2009- Advent Calendar- December 5th
December 6, 2009- Advent Calendar- December 6th
December 7, 2009- Advent Calendar- December 7th
December 8, 2009- Advent Calendar- December 8th
December 9, 2009- Advent Calendar- December 9th
December 10, 2009- Advent Calendar- December 10th
December 11, 2009- Advent Calendar- December 11th
December 13, 2009- December 13th- Advent Calendar
December 14, 2009- December 14th- Advent Calendar
December 15, 2009- December 15th- Advent Calendar
December 16, 2009- December 16th- Christmas Dinner
December 17, 2009- December 17th- Christmas Shopping
December 18, 2009- December 18th- Wrap Presents
December 19, 2009- December 19th- Enjoy Beauty
December 22, 2009- December 20th & 21st & December 22nd
December 23, 2009- December 23rd- Toys For Tots
December 24, 2009- December 24th- Christmas Eve
December 26, 2009- December 25th- Christmas!

The next two years, our countdown activities were connected with our family scripture study.
December 1, 2010- We're making a whole advent out of it!
December 12, 2010- More About the Advent
December 16, 2010- More Advent Fun
December 18, 2010- KAT's Meow
December 21, 2010- The Light of Christmas
December 1, 2011- Countdown to Christmas
December 5, 2011- Not So Pleasant Tradition

And today, December 1, is Eat a Red Apple Day.  We're eating pizza and red apples for dinner, then for dessert we'll eat mint M&Ms as we start our advent calendar scripture study..



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