Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The Countdown


New Year's has come and gone, but our countdowns are not all done. Here's a record of the Gunnell family calendars...

ADVENT CALENDARS
Davis brought this awesome calendar home from preschool. Each day we added a cotton ball to Santa's beard, until he had a full beard and Christmas was here!
Reid made a chain link calendar -- and boy was he pumped when he hit the special gold link! Christmas Eve!
Danny J loved Davis's calendar, because it was his way of counting down to "Grampy's hot tub!" He didn't really understand the importance of Christmas day, but he was VERY ANXIOUS to visit Grams and Grampy's house!



MY FAVORITE CALENDAR
COUNTDOWN TO THE BABY
This is my favorite chain link countdown. Macie made this 50 days ago, when I had 100 days left until my due date. Now we are halfway through with this colorful "baby chain!" Hopefully we won't have to add any extra days to this special countdown...

NEW YEARS DAY, 2012
We began New Year's Eve in Las Vegas, where we celebrated early with grandparents and cousins on Norwegian time. Then we hopped in the car, drove back to Provo, and stayed up until midnight -- when we toasted sparkling cider in fancy goblets and watched the fireworks sparkle across the valley (we love our view!). And we chronicled New Year's Day by interviewing our kids and photographing them for posterity!



Macie - 8 years old - First day of 2012
Reid - 6 years old - First day of 2012
Davis - 4 years old - First day of 2012
Danny J - 2 years old - First day of 2012

2 comments:

J said...

Love the calendars and chains. Laura and I were commenting on how beautiful Macie looks. We love her jewelry and hair too.

Angela Baird said...

Love, love, love all the updates! We love your family and hope to get together more in 2012!!