Monday, December 17, 2007Okay. Like I said. We're a little sparse on our Christmas Decor this year and I've been a little bummed that we don't have a nativity. So. What did I do about that? We made our own nativity, of course! I though it'd be cool to make one that Kami can have fun with, too. So, this morning she and I colored the pictures, and while she took her nap, I laminated them and cut them all out! Voila! Our Nativity!
In our seven plus years of marriage, I can only remember putting up a Christmas tree maybe twice. So, this year I was super excited to get a tree up! The only drawback, of course is that we didn't bring any Christmas decorations with us to Korea! We didn't even bring them to Oklahoma, since we were only going to be there a year. So, our Christmas decor has been a little sparse this year. When we went to the BX to buy our new ornaments, Drew found some purple ornaments that he liked, but I wasn't crazy about a purple tree....until I saw the lime green ornaments! Who needs the traditional red and green tree anyway, right? As you scroll down, you'll also see that the bottom part of our tree is dedicated to our sweet little daughter who loves to play with the ornaments, too! She's got a few Dora ornaments that she takes off to play with, and I made some purple yarn angels that she likes to take off, too!
Besides the Dora ornaments and the yarn angels, the only other unique ornament on the tree is this one:
I got this ornament at a gift exchange last week at our Officers' Spouses' Club activity. This uber talented and amazing woman hand painted this ornament and I am totally in love with it!
What is Kami working so intently on?
Our Christmas Advent Calendar, of course!
Last week I started looking for some fun Christmas crafts to do with Kami, and I found this super cute idea of coloring one page of the Christmas Story starting from December 1st until Christmas. So, every night before Kami goes to bed, we gather in the living room and Kami colors her page for the day, afterwhich either Drew of myself read the scripture under the picture; then hang it on one of our sliding glass doors.
Kami and I made cookies last week to take over to some friends house for dinner. I, of course taught her the art of licking the beaters! And Drew, of couse, caught us both on camera!
Thursday, December 06, 2007I found the coolest piggy bank a couple weeks ago at a little store just down the street. So, Kami's new thing is finding money to put in her bank. Sometimes her dad even gets into his "green fees" jar to let her have some fun with her piggy. At the end of the video, you'll see what she's learned at "school". It's so cute when she does it, it's hard to say "no"....but we're learning!
