Advent - Day 16 and Giveaway WINNER announced!

Matthew 2:11  On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.  Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. 

The wise men brought Jesus three gifts (gold, frankincense, and myrrh).  Santa brings our boys three gifts just like Jesus got three gifts.  Today in the advent, the boys found three pieces of candy for each of them to remind them of the three gifts Jesus received.

Thanks to all of you who entered my first GIVEAWAY.  The winner is:  

 Steph's comment #9. Here is her comment:

 Way To Go!  I have sent you an email so you can contact me about the $25 gift card to Amazon!!  YEAH!!

Advent - Day 2

Traditionally, an advent wreath would start on a Sunday.  But who said we're traditional around here???  So today for advent activity, we got out a "wreath" the boys made last year.  This wreath has its green from bell pepper painting which Brewer did; its red berries are Maddox's fingerprints.  The outside of the wreath has four candles (battery powered, thank you very much, after all I do have a 3 and 6 year old).  The center has the Christ candle.  We will light one candle each week during advent and be reminded that Christ is the Light of the World.

Don't forget to leave a comment (NOT ON THIS POST...go to the GIVEAWAY POST!!) to be entered for the giveaway.  You could win a $25 gift card to Amazon.  Right now, only two entries have been made...so your chances are good great!!  Click {here} for the giveaway information.  Make sure you leave your comments to enter the giveaway on the GIVEAWAY POST -- not on this post. :)

My First Giveaway!!!

I love free things; you might too!  The winner of this give away will receive $25 gift card to Amazon!! All comments must be made by 11:59PM/EST on Dec. 11th. The winner will be announced December 12th.  

There are 4 ways to enter... 

1. Follow me.

2. Add a link to this blog from your blog.

3. Blog about my giveaway.

4. Post about the giveaway on Facebook (including a link to this blog). 

Leave one comment for each thing you do and I will pick one lucky winner on Monday, December 12th.   Please comment on this blog post ONLY for the give away opportunity to win!  

MORE INFORMATION: You MUST post your comment here.  I will use Random.org to select the winner.  Here is how it works...

-Let's pretend there are 50 comments below on Dec. 12th.

-I will put in the random.org system the starting comment number (which would be comment 1) and then the last comment number (in this example, it would be 50).

-Random.org will produce a number.  On this example, it was 11.  So in this example, comment 11 would be the winner.  

-If you select "follow" at the top left of the screen to follow the blog AND you post about this giveaway on your FB page (including a link to the blog), that would be two entries for the giveaway.  You would need to post two comments (one entry for each).  Here is an example of someone from another blog who entered twice by posting her two comments -- hence, her entries were #10 and #11 -- so she would have won the giveaway since the Random.org selected comment 11 in the above example.

If you have any questions, let me know.  Good luck!  I love shopping at Amazon!