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<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nOn Saturday the 14th we took a trip to Seattle to do some Christmas shopping, so I couldn’t help but including this in our advent calendar. \u00a0I mean, I am a girl after all. \u00a0I ended up getting some goodies at Victoria’s Secret.<\/p>\n
Day 15 || Make Christmas cards for each other Day 16 || Watch Charlie Brown Christmas Day 17 || Hot chocolate + Christmas music + drive around and look at lights Day 18 || Bake a festive treat Day 19 || Watch White Christmas Day 20 || Visit our very own little Christmas town And that wraps up week three of our activities advent calendar!<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As promised, here is week 3 of our Christmas activities advent calendar! Day 14 || Treat yourself while Christmas shopping On Saturday the 14th we took a trip to Seattle to do some Christmas shopping, so I couldn’t help but including this in our advent calendar. \u00a0I mean, I am a girl after all. \u00a0I… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":701,"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-699","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-bh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/edff670c660811e3a42a12bd1ba02a9b_8.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7213,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/7213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/strong>I had fun with this. \u00a0These homemade gems are much better than any you can find in the store! \u00a0We decorated cards for each other, wrote mushy sentiments inside and then gave them to each other when we were finished.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>The Charlie Brown Christmas special is too adorable not to watch at Christmas time. \u00a0Plus, it’s a great way to hear what Christmas is all about :)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>This is my favorite Christmas date! \u00a0I love driving around and looking at Christmas lights, it’s so relaxed and sweet. \u00a0I would have loved to do it every night if my hubby would have let me :)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>These cookies were delicious!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>This was a cozy Thursday night, snuggling with the pups and watching White Christmas, an old Christmas movie starring Bing Crosby. \u00a0I had never seen it before, and wanted to because I love those old crooners. \u00a0Glad I added it to our calendar!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>This is Leavenworth, WA, a town we live very close to. \u00a0 The town is themed to be a Bavarian village, and in December they host the Christmas lighting festival. \u00a0All of the shops and trees are decked in beautiful Christmas lights that get turned on all at once during the lighting. \u00a0Pictures never do it justice, but it is\u00a0so\u00a0<\/em> magical.<\/p>\n