The Best Thornton Christmas EVER!

Christmas was so fun this year! I wanted to start some fun family traditions, since Bethany is old enough to sort of understand Christmas. First, I made an advent calendar out of paper bags and magazine clippings:

Each day, we had some sort of activity that would lead up to Christmas. Some days, there was an ornament to put up on our tree, too. And these activities were sometimes pretty mundane, or things we would have done anyway. Like putting up our snowman door decoration. I also tried to get a bit crafty and make the girls each their own ornament. You can sort of see them in this picture: little teddy bears with their pictures in them:

By the way, this was a mini Christmas tree we happen to have, and most of our ornaments were removed from our REAL tree by a certain little girl and placed on this tree instead:)

Bethany LOVED our manger scene and acting out when happened when Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem. In this picture, they're all sleeping.

 Bethany found another use for our Christmas stockings.

Here are some pictures of the girls by our Christmas tree(s):

On Christmas Eve, we went over to the Thornton grandparents' house and played a bit.  

WE LOVED THIS CHRISTMAS!