Advent...Day 11...Kindy Cupcakes

Today we went over to Kindy (it's not Holly's normal day today) to help the children make cupcakes.

My friend Nat had made all the decorations and cupcakes and I was just there to help supervise and assist the kids.  They made an awesome job!

And my kids (including Hunter and Phoebe) had a great time playing with Holly's Kindy friends while we made the cupcakes.

Don't they look very Christmassy!!

The kids cupcakes

Holly's snowman cupcake

Phoebe's snowman cupcake



Hunter playing at Kindy...not impressed with me taking his photo...obviously cramping his style

Advent...Day 8...Clevedon Christmas Parade

For the last three years we have hosted a lunch and get together to celebrate the annual Clevedon Christmas Parade.

Its heaps of fun and even Santa makes a special visit...me by the way!

The weather was a bit unpredictable at the start but ended up being perfect. 

It was so nice to catch up with friends and family, enjoy a pot luck lunch, meet Santa, which the parade and generally have a good time! Can't wait to next year.

Holly and Santa

Santa and Phoebe


 



Watching the parade on Main Street

Hunter and Santa

The cupcakes we made that were supposed to look like the Grinch

Hunter and Poppa watching the parade

Watching the Parade on Main Street

Santa!

Advent...Day 7...Party Preparation

Tomorrow is the big day! That is The Clevedon Christmas Parade. We have our annual Christmas party with friends and family.

I enlisted the girls help to make the party favours.

We're going with a Grinch theme this year.

Phoebe helped me make the adults party favours...Grinch Pills.

Phoebe helping laminate the tags for the Grinch Pills

The Grinch Pills for the adults

Holly helped me make the kids party favours...Green Candy Canes.



Holly helping make the labels for the Candy Canes

The finished candy cane

The wording for the candy cane labels

We all helped make the labels for the kids water bottles. I "grinched" each child for their photo on the water bottle.  There is an app available to do this...its very cute.

Hunter...he's been grinched

The water bottles

Grinch's Gargle Water

Advent...Day 10...Christmas Cards

My Christmas Cards have been really slow arriving this year. But they came today!! So we spent all day writing them. I lost count of how many.

But it feels really good to have them done and all boxed up and ready to be posted.

The girls wrote their own special ones to Nanas etc.

It also feels great to be up to date with my blogging. Four Advent posts done tonight yippee!

The Christmas cards this year...not very Christmas themed...but a cute photo of the kids.

Holly writing her cards.

I put my little girls to work!

All boxed up and ready to post! Tomorrows job I think!

Advent...Day 9...Hunter's Book

I know that Hunter has been missing out on a lot of these Advent activities. So tonight was just for him!

He loves the Lego series books. He got 6 of them for his birthday!! So a while back I ordered and put away the Lego city "Save This Christmas" book.

Tonight we got to read it!

To be honest the story isn't anything special but he loves all the Lego pictures!

And yes he does look tied...this was just before he crashed for the night.

The book!

Pretty stoked to see Santa!



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Advent...Day 6...Kindy Christmas Party and Decorating the Tree

We did two christmas activities today.

Kindy Christmas Party

First, Holly had her Kindy christmas party! What a surprise, we made and took along cupcakes (see yesterdays post).

This year Holly was brave enough to stand with Santa.  She loved her One Direction charm bracelet he gave her.

Holly and Santa

Holly was pretty pleased with her One Direction charm bracelet.

Decorating the Tree

Phoebe was a bit disappointed that she missed out on the Christmas Party...so her special treat was being able to decorate the tree. 

Phoebe is so sensitive about sharing.  She even saved some decorations so that Holly could add them to the tree. 

Phoebe hard at work.

Holly helping her little brother decorate the tree.

Phoebe decorating the tree

Advent...Day 5...Part 2 Christmas Cupcakes

We're huge fans of cupcakes in our house. The kids love making...and of course eating them.

Today Holly made some to take to Kindy. She helped make and decorate them including choosing the very bright colours!!

I love this photo of Hunter which unfortunately out of focus. He's just realised Holly has a cupcake for him !