On the first day of Christmas to my true friend I gave..... One big jar of hot coco!

Each year for the past 6 or 7 years I have done the 12 days of Christmas for my kids and some friends. It is just something very little (usually the dollar store) and they get to open it each morning before school. They have come to really like this tradition even though the things are small and usually gone or broken by Christmas!!!!!!!! For the last few years I have made the 12 days of Christmas for some friends and family. For the hot coco jars I experimented with the Vinyl for the cricut machine and cut out "LEt it snow" and snowflakes and stuck them to a jar from Hobby Lobby. I think they turned out really cute and they will be just in time for the cold cold weather we are predicted to have this weekend. A HIGH of 3° that is REALLLLLLY COLD!!!!!!!! What a perfect weekend to have a nice hot cup of coco and watch a movie with a big fuzzy blanket or scrap all weekend sipping coco with a nice space heater blowing on your feet!

I went scrapping at a cabin out in the woods this weekend and made this glimmer mist snowman book. I love how it turned out and now all I need is some snow pictures to put in it!!!!!!!!

I was looking for something super quick and easy for my kids to take to school for Christmas treats and found these adorable M&M Matchbooks on Splitcoast. They went together so fast it was AMAZING!!! I love easy projects that turn out cute!

OH to be a kid again!

All Tangled up in Lights

Tonight I helped Haley and Hayden make Christmas banks. This brought back such great memories from when I was little. Every year my mom would help us make banks out of milk cartons (that was always the best, we never got chocolate milk already mixed up otherwise, we had to use the dry Nestle powder and white milk and it just isn't the same!) We would save money all of December and get extra money for being good, helping out or whatever, then right before Christmas we would take our banks to the local 5 and Dime Store and buy Christmas presents for the family. This is the 3rd year we have done this with Haley and Hayden's first year. It has been so much fun taking Haley to the dollar store and telling her "pick whatever you want for each person" she actually does pretty good and puts a lot of thought into each person's gift. It is just exciting for me to watch them give and know there is more to life than always getting and sometimes you give and expect nothing in return.

I got this super cute, super easy kit from Cathy and put it together last night. The kids started their count down to Christmas boxes and thought those were just the best thing in the world because they got a little toy or candy EVERY DAY UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!