advent day #5 - Watch a Christmas movie.

Our activity for the day was to watch a Christmas movie together as a family. The movie we chose was a Barbie Nutcracker movie that we had.

As you can see, someone was not happy about the movie selection...



...OWEN!



BUT, once we started into the movie, the mice, the Nutcracker, and all of the action and fighting caught his attention, and he didn't seem to mind watching it after all.



Ivy had the idea of turning out all of the lights, including the Christmas tree lights to give us "theater lighting." (Thinking about her idea, we have NO idea where she got the idea as she has NEVER been to a movie theater to watch a movie yet. It's fascinating to see how our kids pick up on things.)

All in all, we had a nice special time as a family sitting down, relaxing, and watching a movie on a Sunday afternoon.

Of course, before bed, we worked on the next word to our memory verse and read more prophecy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from the book of Isaiah.

He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. ~Isaiah 53:3-6