2 days until Christmas!!!

We are definately in a festive spirit here at the Mokry house! The kids are having so much fun in anticipation of Christmas day. I am trying to make sure the true meaning of Christmas is not lost so we talk a lot about Jesus' birth and what that means for us. We are all excited to bake Jesus a birthday cake to celebrate His birthday and the most important gift of all!

For the last two days we have been working on gingerbread houses. Here is Aubrey's before she finished it.

And here is Camden working on his!
Camden has also been pretending to be "the elf on the shelf" just like our elf Peter! Ha! He actually looks a lot like Peter. Yesterday Camden asked Peter to bring him a cookie from the north pole, and he did! This morning both kids woke up to find big, cute cookies on a stick in their stockings. It was really cute because we were still in bed and heard Camden say "yeeess!" in the living room before running in our room to tell us :)

And this morning the kids gathered acorns for tomorrow night. A couple of years ago Chris and the kids started a little tradition of putting acorns on the sidewalk and stomping on them so the reindeer could eat them. I mentioned that we are going to be busy tomorrow so the kids gathered some acorns up so they will be ready! I made some hot chocolate for them the enjoy since it is actually a little chilly out today- yay for a chilly Christmas!