Tradition #1

I thought it would be fun to post some of our family's little Christmas traditions. I don't have any original, exciting traditions, but I look forward to the ones we do have. Most of them are the normal, "traditional" ones that everyone has, but oh well. So...here is our first tradition, and one of Malia's personal favorites!!

The Advent Calendars... we usually have two advent calendars. For the first one, everyone gets their own chocolate calendar where we are rewarded each day with a piece of chocolate...the closer it gets to Christmas the closer we get to eating the biggest piece! YUM YUM!!

The second advent calendar we have is my personal favorite. Each day a small little two page booklet is pulled from the calendar. Each little book contains a small part of the story leading up to the birth of Christ. As we read the events everyday that lead up to His birth, a small piece of the true meaning of Christmas is felt in our home. Most of the time it is Malia and me reading the little booklet, but we love it. There is a little hook connected to each booklet that allows us to hang it on our tree. When we have hung each one on the tree, the story of how our Savior came to this earth is spread all over our tree. It is wonderful.
Here is the calendar where we pick a little booklet each day...

Malia, hanging today's booklet titled "The Oasis". This tells the story of Mary and Joseph traveling through the hot, dry oasis on their way to Bethlehem.