Advent

Today was the beginning of the Advent season. Advent means "coming". Each December, we celebrate the first coming of Jesus and look forward to His second coming.
Each Sunday until Christmas we will celebrate by lighting one candle in the Advent circle. There are four candles in the Advent circle and one in the middle. They symbolize: Prophecy, Shepherds, Angels, Bethlehem and Christ. Today in church, our family lit the "Prophecy" candle to remind us that Christ's coming was revealed by God through prophets hundreds of years before He was born.

Thanks Megan for taking our pictures!

We lit the Advent candle at all three services this morning so we had a bit of down-time in between each in which we had to keep Miss Hailey occupied. Here's a little of what we did:

Played on Daddy's bookshelves

 Helped Daddy work

Took a nap

We also had to have a mini photo-shoot this morning before we left for church because Hailey just looked too cute in her Christmas dress. (That my mom made for me and I wore as a baby)

We hope you're enjoying preparing for Christmas as much as we are!