{"id":688,"date":"2013-12-28T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2017-11-17T10:05:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T18:05:04","slug":"christmas-activities-advent-calendar-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Activities Advent Calendar | Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey all, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! \u00a0It has been such a busy season for us, \u00a0which is why it has been so long since my last post. \u00a0But, I’ve enjoyed every minute of it! \u00a0Okay, so I know Christmas is over now, but I’m still going to go ahead and finish out my Christmas Activities Advent Calendar posts. \u00a0(Better late than never, right?) \u00a0I\u00a0loved\u00a0<\/em>doing this calendar this Christmas season, and I’m already planning on doing it again next year! \u00a0Let’s dive right into what we did for week 2. \u00a0(Saturday to Friday)<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>Here’s the calendar for those of you who missed the post from week 1!<\/a><\/p>\n

December 7 || Go ice skating\"8be2638c5fbc11e395940e879ebfa486_8\"<\/a><\/strong>I hadn’t gone ice skating in a few years, so this had to go on the list. \u00a0We have a local ice rink that is open year round. \u00a0We went with another couple and had a fun Saturday night!<\/p>\n

Day 8 || Do a Christmas craft\"IMG_6905c\"<\/a><\/strong>I did a post on decorating pine cones a couple weeks ago. \u00a0(Check it out here!<\/a>) \u00a0This was a fun (and free!) little project to do on a Sunday afternoon. \u00a0After church, we went to a local park to go hunting for pine cones- and then when we got home I got out all of our paints, puff paints, ribbons, etc and we started decorating. \u00a0I used our creations as simple Christmas decorations when we were finished.<\/p>\n

Day 9 || White Christmas date night
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The 9th of every month is typically a date night for us, so we decided we would theme it. \u00a0We made dinner at home, set the table with lots of pretty whites including lots of white tea lights, and we sipped on white wine. \u00a0It was really nice, and the perfect theme considering we didn’t actually get a white Christmas this year. \u00a0Where’s our snow?!<\/p>\n

Day 10 || The Holiday + Christmas fettuccine\"604445c0620911e3b61312bc1afe7834_8\"<\/a><\/strong>I adore this movie. \u00a0I made us a delicious dinner of Christmas fettuccine to eat while we watched, to match what they eat on Christmas in the movie.<\/p>\n

Day 11 || Make “gingerbread” Christmas trees\"a725b93e62df11e3af9d125892e7acd6_8\"<\/a><\/strong>The gingerbread is in quotation marks because these aren’t actually gingerbread. \u00a0They are sugar cones! \u00a0I saw the idea on Pinterest to decorate ice cream cones and make trees instead of a gingerbread house because, let’s face it- gingerbread houses are just plain hard! \u00a0I mean, am I the only one who can’t keep one of those things standing? \u00a0These were so fun, and all we had to buy beforehand were the cones. \u00a0I whipped up a simple butter cream frosting, and we already had a variety of sprinkles and m&ms!<\/p>\n

Day 12 || Spiked hot chocolate + Love Actually\"spiked<\/a><\/strong>Another great Christmas movie I had to throw into the mix! \u00a0We cozied up with a blanket and had spiked hot chocolate while we watched. \u00a0(Hot chocolate + peppermint schnapps + mini marshmallows) \u00a0P.S. Isn’t this mug adorable? \u00a0A gift picked out by my 8 year old nephew! \u00a0He has such great taste already :)<\/p>\n

Day 13 || Decorate Christmas cookies with the family
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This is a family tradition I\u00a0always\u00a0<\/em>looked forward to as a little girl: decorating sugar cookies for Christmas. \u00a0Now I get to see my niece and nephews enjoy it just like I did. \u00a0It’s so funny to see them act just like I remember I used to… \u00a0the difficulty of not licking your fingers when frosting got on them… the thoughtfulness of always wanting to decorate a cookie for loved ones (auntie Kayla, this one’s for you!)… and the\u00a0pure joy\u00a0<\/em>of finally getting to eat one when all the decorating is done. \u00a0This was such a fun night.<\/p>\n

So, this was week 2, from Saturday to Friday. \u00a0Week 3 will follow soon!<\/p>\n

Wishing you all a lovely Saturday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey all, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! \u00a0It has been such a busy season for us, \u00a0which is why it has been so long since my last post. \u00a0But, I’ve enjoyed every minute of it! \u00a0Okay, so I know Christmas is over now, but I’m still going to go ahead and finish out… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[26,45,17],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrate","tag-christmas","tag-december","tag-holidays","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42QGB-b6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/whitechristmas.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7209,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/7209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}