Day 13

Visit Santa

We went to see Santa at the Mall...

Brenton & Savannah were beyond excited to see Santa again!!

Day 12

"Build A Bear"

Since Day 12 is Sunday we actually did this Sat. :) I couldn't resist these adorable Rudolph & Clara this year! The kids have loved there Reindeer and have fallen asleep with them every night. Even though we had to wait more than a hour in line to make these. Brent & Savannah were unfazed and patiently waited for there turn.

Day 11 / 16
FOAM Christmas Craft with Stickers

& Make Gingerbread Houses

At the Christmas Party we made these super adorable Gingerbread Houses out of Foam!! So much easier when you have toddlers!

Day 10

"Attend A Holiday Party"

After picking up Grandma Malson at the Airport, we went to Annual Adams Christmas Party. The kids were beyond excited to see Santa!!! Santa brought each of the kids a bag full of choclate, a hot wheels car, and a play dough! They were more impressed because Santa knew there name!!! Can you figure out who Santa is??? ;)

A Christmas Countdown...

This year we purchased A Christmas Advent Calender from Pottery Barn Kids. We decided to jazz it up a little bit and created a little card for each day. Every day our kids would take a card out of the pocket. Each card would have a different activity to do. As you can imagine our kids got more and more excited for each card. Here is this years list...


The Thorpe Family Christmas Countdown

1-Decorate Our Family Tree
2-Setup Nativity and tell The Christmas Story
3-Decorate Kids Trees
4-String Popcorn & Watch a Favorite Christmas Movie
5-Watch The Christmas Devotional
6-Write Santa a Letter
7-Make Christmas Cupcakes
8-Make Christmas Cookies
9-Make a Christmas Ornament
10-Attend A Holiday Party
11-FOAM Christmas Craft with Stickers
12-Build a Bear

13-Visit Santa
14-Visit Santa's Reindeer
15-Make Snow Globes
16-Have friends over & make gingerbread houses
17-Make A Christmas Card
18-Color Christmas
19-Gingerbread Men and Women
20- Read A Favorite Christmas Book
21- Give Service to someone
22-See More Christmas Lights
23-Make Christ a Birthday Cake
24- Rest & Reflect... watch Joy to the World as a family

25- Christmas!!!