First Sunday of Advent

Advent is here and the whole family is very excited. To quote Ella, "Mommy, advent's almost here, you have to get your crafts together!"

We lit our first candle on Sunday and read one of our new Christmas books this year, Song of the Stars by Sally Lloyd-Jones. She wrote the Jesus Storybook Bible and this is equally beautiful. It has beautiful illustrations of animals all over the world getting ready for Jesus coming.

It seemed only fitting to get out the nativity set Brent put together as a child. He was inspired by one of his favorite books The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas by Madeline L'Engle and began collecting and adding all kinds of different animals to the nativity from hippos to squirrels and aligators.


The girls loved it and immediately pulled up their chairs and started playing. Ella's narration was pretty funny, "And then the opossum went around the world telling the shepherds and kinds the true meaning of Christmas." After day 2, we had our first casualty, so we had to get out their Fisher Price Little People nativity for more unbreakable play.