Merry Christmas | Christmas Nativity

 Merry Christmas! It's Christmas Eve afternoon, and half of us are visiting with family. The other half are napping or preparing for tomorrow. We've been having fun playing with some new Nativities. Here are the Nativity Blocks I made for Otto and Atlas to play with. They both love them, and I love them too, since I'm not worried about them getting wrecked! We've been doing a Christmas advent calendar, with Christmas activities each day. I set these up the night before, and in the morning when I told them there were Nativity Blocks to play with, they were so excited!

I used this set

  

(if you're interested in this set for this purpose, you will need to ask for the PNG files from the company because they only provide you with a PDF file, which is locked and comes in larger sizes than you really want for this project). I shrunk all the images in photoshop and printed them out at home, then mod podged them onto the blocks.

Merry Christmas to you all

 -

I hope you have time to reflect on the Nativity in your own ways, as we have had the chance to do all this month.

Sharing I The Christmas Story video

T'is the season to share the Christmas spirit, to think about our Savior's birth. This video has got to be the cutest version of the Christmas Story ever. Their other videos are wonderful as well. Merry Christmas!

This is an exciting time for Calgary - to have a temple of our own. Make a date to view the open house with your family, you won't be disappointed!

LOVE this.

Deiter F. Uchtdorf spoke at the last General Women's Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. His talk seemed to speak directly to me. He speaks directly to all women everywhere. My friend Becky posted this on her blog, which was a great reminder to me of the highlights of all that he said, displayed in such a beautiful manner.