Top 20 Things To Do Every Christmas
From our home to yours: Merry Christmas!
Hope you enjoy all the posts here on the Dys family blog. It feels great to have it completely updated for the time being so that you can catch up on our little family. We've enjoyed our Christmas season so far and hope you enjoy the best it has to offer - time with family and time to celebrate Christ's birth
Top Twenty Things to Do Every Christmas - (And the Dys family version thereof)
1. Go to a Christmas tree farm and cut down your own Christmas tree - (We loved going to the Jarvis Farm in Milton, WV - only $30! - but next year we'll plan to go in Oct. and pick a tree ahead of time)
2. Decorate tree and the rest of the house! (a few favorite decorations: our nativity, a crystal Christmas tree, our new stockings, the star for our tree topper)
3. Shop for presents (and try to avoid the Christmas rush as much as possible!)
4. Wrap presents (and try to be extremely patient while a 4 year old helps with the tape!)
5. Listen to lots of Christmas music! (Messiah, SCC, Glad, Take 6, Lots of Instrumental, Evie)
6. Watch Christmas Movies - (A Christmas Carol, Rudolph, It's a Wonderful Life, The Grinch, WowieBozowie Christmas)
7. Go to light show - (In St. Alban's and sit on Santa's lap and also at Coonskin Park (and walk around the lake (and see model train exhibit))
8. Go to live nativity (We went to two this year! Davis Creek Nazarene and Rock Branch Independent Churches)
9. Do advent devotions as a family (Used a great collection Grandma Dys wrote for us!)
10. Write a Christmas letter and mail to family and friends (Hope you enjoyed our letter. Jeremy writes them and I send them! We make a good team. We so enjoy reading all the letters that come our way.)
11. Make cookies and go to a cookie exchange party if possible (Tried snicker doodles for the first time. Thanks for the wide variety of cookies RSBC moms! Johnathan and I also made white chocolate covered pretzels with sprinkles)
12. Make holiday crafts (Pipe cleaner candy canes at the library. Wooden ornaments at Lowe's build and grow workshop)
13. Sing Christmas Carols (Caroling was canceled but we sang quite a few here at home. Johnathan was singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" to everyone in the grocery store the other day. Does that count?)
14. Add a few ornaments to the tree (still plan to do this - but we do have our crafts)
15. Count down the days until Christmas! (I made a calendar for Johnathan this year and he is very into marking down the days on it. We also have a small tree with 12 ornaments on it for counting down the days as well as a cool wooden magnetic nativity scene.)
16. Shovel some driveways (Jeremy and Johnathan just did this tonight with some other men from the church)
17. Travel to visit family (every other year we alternate between Michigan and Florida for this)
18. Make a snowman, snow angels and as many snowballs as possible! (And sled down our steep road if possible!)
19. Go to Clay Center (and see their trees and trains exhibit - see post below)
20.Read the Christmas Story in the Bible (and read as many Christ centered Christmas books as possible all season long!)
Well, there's a little picture of our Christmas so far - and it's not over yet! Hope you enjoy all our pictures. Leave a comment or send an email. We love to hear from you!
Jennie
Here's Johnathan at the model train club at Coonskin park.
Hope you enjoy all the posts here on the Dys family blog. It feels great to have it completely updated for the time being so that you can catch up on our little family. We've enjoyed our Christmas season so far and hope you enjoy the best it has to offer - time with family and time to celebrate Christ's birth
Top Twenty Things to Do Every Christmas - (And the Dys family version thereof)
1. Go to a Christmas tree farm and cut down your own Christmas tree - (We loved going to the Jarvis Farm in Milton, WV - only $30! - but next year we'll plan to go in Oct. and pick a tree ahead of time)
2. Decorate tree and the rest of the house! (a few favorite decorations: our nativity, a crystal Christmas tree, our new stockings, the star for our tree topper)
3. Shop for presents (and try to avoid the Christmas rush as much as possible!)
4. Wrap presents (and try to be extremely patient while a 4 year old helps with the tape!)
5. Listen to lots of Christmas music! (Messiah, SCC, Glad, Take 6, Lots of Instrumental, Evie)
6. Watch Christmas Movies - (A Christmas Carol, Rudolph, It's a Wonderful Life, The Grinch, WowieBozowie Christmas)
7. Go to light show - (In St. Alban's and sit on Santa's lap and also at Coonskin Park (and walk around the lake (and see model train exhibit))
8. Go to live nativity (We went to two this year! Davis Creek Nazarene and Rock Branch Independent Churches)
9. Do advent devotions as a family (Used a great collection Grandma Dys wrote for us!)
10. Write a Christmas letter and mail to family and friends (Hope you enjoyed our letter. Jeremy writes them and I send them! We make a good team. We so enjoy reading all the letters that come our way.)
11. Make cookies and go to a cookie exchange party if possible (Tried snicker doodles for the first time. Thanks for the wide variety of cookies RSBC moms! Johnathan and I also made white chocolate covered pretzels with sprinkles)
12. Make holiday crafts (Pipe cleaner candy canes at the library. Wooden ornaments at Lowe's build and grow workshop)
13. Sing Christmas Carols (Caroling was canceled but we sang quite a few here at home. Johnathan was singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" to everyone in the grocery store the other day. Does that count?)
14. Add a few ornaments to the tree (still plan to do this - but we do have our crafts)
15. Count down the days until Christmas! (I made a calendar for Johnathan this year and he is very into marking down the days on it. We also have a small tree with 12 ornaments on it for counting down the days as well as a cool wooden magnetic nativity scene.)
16. Shovel some driveways (Jeremy and Johnathan just did this tonight with some other men from the church)
17. Travel to visit family (every other year we alternate between Michigan and Florida for this)
18. Make a snowman, snow angels and as many snowballs as possible! (And sled down our steep road if possible!)
19. Go to Clay Center (and see their trees and trains exhibit - see post below)
20.Read the Christmas Story in the Bible (and read as many Christ centered Christmas books as possible all season long!)
Well, there's a little picture of our Christmas so far - and it's not over yet! Hope you enjoy all our pictures. Leave a comment or send an email. We love to hear from you!
Jennie
Here's Johnathan at the model train club at Coonskin park.
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