Advent Jar Recap

So, I tried to document our advent jar happenings as much as possible but here is a quick recap of our Christmas season…so sad its over!

December 1st- Pray Together

December 2nd- Take a Family Photo

December 3rd- Listen to Each Others Favorite Christmas Song

December 4th- Share Your Favorite Christmas Memory

We both agreed that going to Winterhaven (a neighborhood in Tucson that almost every house has phenomenal lights) when we first started dating was one of our favorite memories.

Whoa, this picture reminds me it’s been three years since I’ve lost the weight I put on in college and kept it off! Woot Woot!

December 5th- skipped

December 6th- doubled up–> Drink Hot Chocolate and Buy a Christmas Scratcher –> remember when Paul spent TWENTY DOLLARS on a scratcher and lost? The photo of him cracks me up.

December 7th- Drink Egg Nog or Apple Cider

December 8th- Top 10 Things We Love About Our Relationship

December 9th- Go Out For Cocktails –> We had cocktails but we stayed in…

December 10th- Buy Each Other Gifts

I love Alpine…

December 11th- Wear Red and Green & we went to ZooLights!

December 12th- Watch a Christmas Movie

December 13th- Enjoy Something Peppermint

December 14th- Look at Christmas Lights

December 15th- Buy A Christmas Ornament

December 16th- Sing & Dance to Christmas Songs

December 17th- Bake Christmas Cookies–> Bake a Giant Sugar Cookie

December 18th- Buy Missy A Present—> She got into the bag and now I find these little mice all over the house….

December 19th- Share 3 Things We Love About Each Other

December 20th- Foot Rubs

December 21st- Get Your Favorite Holiday Beverage from Starbucks–> drank while we went to go see The Hobbit

December 22nd- Wrap Presents and Have a Drink

December 23rd- Have a Fire —> much too warm in AZ, next year we will bring up Netflix fire on TV if that happens!

December 24th- Make a Gingerbread House

My Mother In Law came up with the clever idea of stapling the pieces of paper together in a chain to put around the tree!

I think we did pretty good doing all the task on the day we drew it, there were only a few times we did a “redraw.” Given all the post wedding and pre holiday craziness I think it went pretty well. I can say for sure this will become a regular tradition in our family. I also made Paul’s parents a jar with the same tasks in it and it was kind of fun to text back and forth our daily drawings, it gave us a fun way to stay in touch! Thanks to one of my favorite bloggers for posting such a cute idea! See 24 Days of Togetherness at Carrotsncake.com.

Did you do any kind of advent traditions? What was your favorite memory from this Christmas season?????