Saturday, December 1, 2012

Happy Advents!!

There are many different stories about the history and meaning of advents.  For me it is a small gift of love to open the 24 days leading up to Christmas.  With this year being such a rough one I wanted to do something for Mom and Nan as well.  So this year Mom & Nan each got a photo covered envelope with a note, quote or memory inside to open each morning.  

This is the second year my nieces, Elizabeth and Megan, have received advents and our girls are on their third year!   I also wanted to give my SIL, Jan, a daily envelope with a few presents too - because she has so much fun with the girls opening theirs.

This morning all 4 girls opened their advent letting them know that they will be having a sleepover, dinner and games. Each girl got a randomly chosen 'course' on the back of their morning letter ~ letting them know what meal they were responsible for choosing and making.  Jan will be dropping the girls off at Save-On-Foods where each girl will have to shop for what they need and then we will go home and prep each of the 4 courses.  Paige is starting with soup, Megan is next with an appy, Elizabeth got the Entree, and Taeya got dessert....Should be fun....I'll post the pics tomorrow!!

Here are photos of all of the advents together!!


Here are all of the envelopes for Mom and Nan




Here are some of mom's gifts! 




Each envelope has one or two photos of Christmas memories!





Each one is sealed with a kiss!!



Here are all of the advents!  All four girls, 3 packs of envelopes, JP's gifts and some of mom's advents!!






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