Celebrating Advent

During the month of December, our family has been celebrating Advent. Each night as we read our devotionals, we light a candle and add another candle each week leading up to Christmas. Each candle in the wreath represents the four weeks leading up to Christmas. It's a nice time to be together as a family and the coming celebration of Christ's birth.
Since the younger kids don't understand as much, we also have an Advent calender that counts down the days 'til Christmas with figurines from the Nativity. The kids love the calender and seem to always fight over whose turn it is to move the nativity figure!

Reading our devotional book

Our advent wreath.. and Esther =)

Being silly..

The advent calender

Asher and Elly

Ivy in front of our Christmas tree

Asher's first ornament

One of my mom's favorite ornaments- I made this in pre-school when I was four years old.
It's nothing more than a plastic spoon with a piece of gold foil wrapped around it, but it's been
on our tree every year!