Every year, my family adopts a Salvation Army angel to buy gifts for at Christmas. We usually pick a child who wants something big like a bicycle. This year our angel was a six year old little girl named Joselin.
This past Friday was the only day this month that we could all coordinate our schedules to go buy gifts for Joselin. Aunt MerMer decided too make this a fun filled weekend and had planned several activities for the kids after they shopped, including a sleepover at Granna's house. She picked Addison and Aubrey up on Friday morning and brought them to Cleburne and I checked Parker out of school early so that they could all go with Aunt MerMer and Granna to shop.
Since we all pitched in towards the gifts, we were able to get Joselin several outfits, pajamas, a pair of shoes, socks, underwear, a new winter coat, books, markers, coloring books, a game, a princess doll and a Bible, as well as the bike and helmet on her wish list.
After the shopping was done, they headed back to Granna's to quickly wrap the gifts and take them down to the Salvation Army, since Friday was the deadline for turning everything in.
Aunt MerMer and Granna had a fun surprise for the kids after they took the gifts... a trip to Build-A-Bear in Fort Worth, which is something Parker and Eden had never done. After dinner at the food court and checking the directory at the mall, they headed to Build-A-Bear. (I had to add the picture of the directory because Parker make a special point to tell me about looking at a map in the mall. Apparently he thought that was pretty cool!)
Once they arrived, they picked out their bears and "stuffed them up" (Parker's exact words when I asked him about it). Notice their originality- out of all of the bears to choose from in the store, they all four picked the exact same rainbow bear.
After they "stuffed them up", they gave them a bath and named their bears.
To top off the evening, they took a train ride around the mall before heading home.
After they got home, they curled up on the couch for a snack and video before heading to bed. They all slept great- Aunt MerMer and Granna did a great job of tiring them out!
After a yummy breakfast of donuts from Granstan, they iced and decorated Christmas cookies and made some decorative Christmas trees out of construction paper.
I love this tradition that Aunt MerMer has started with our kids. I know they will look forward to it every year and I can't wait for Lily to be old enough to participate too. I hope that through activities like these, we will instill in them the importance of giving to others. Thanks Aunt MerMer and Granna for a super fun weekend!!
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