Tis the Season!!

We spent the month of December focusing on Advent and the anticipation of Christs birth.  The boys really soaked up the Christmas story and we enjoyed our activities this month. 

We counted down the days until Christmas with our Advent Calendar.  This was exciting for the boys to open each day.  We had a verse and a herseys kiss and a Christmas activity for the day.  We did many fun things like visited Bethlehem Village in Delta Mo (our favorite family tradition), watched the Christmas of Lights parade in Downtown Cape, drove through Cape County Park to see the Christmas lights, saw the lights and music show at the Clarks home in Kelso Mo,  Christmas Caroled, and stopped at the Hustsons Furniture display in Downtown Cape to see the train!

 We used a wonderful Advent curriculum, Truth in the Tinsel, this year to study about the Christmas story.  Each day we made an ornament to put on the boys Christmas tree to help us remember what we had learned. They loved this!!

Our fun 4H field trip was to Meir Tree Farm in Jackson MO.

We learned how Christmas trees are grown and harvested and that there are many different types of Christmas trees. 

This season was really intentional and meaningful and I appreciated this time spent with the kids in our homeschool getting ready for Christs birth celebration.