Happy and Blessed Home

encouraging moms, easy recipes, free printables, and family fun

  • Preschool Tools
    • A-Z Learn to Read Printables
    • Book Boxes
    • FREE Teaching Printables
    • Kindergarten Prep
    • Preschool Books
    • Preschool Crafts
    • Preschool Games
    • Preschool Curriculum
    • Preschool Tools
    • Toddler Alphabet
  • Encouragement
    • Bible Study
    • Encouragement
    • Marriage
    • Parenting
  • Family Fun
  • Free Stuff
    • Downloading Instructions
    • FREE Teaching Printables
    • Perpetual Calendar Printables
    • Counting Money Printable Worksheets
    • Preschool Activities Shapes, Colors, and Numbers Matching Game
    • Preschool Activities Circle Time Morning Board
    • Create an All About My Family Book Craft
    • FREE Fall Printables for Preschoolers
    • FREE Farm Animal Puppets
    • Preschool Activities – Weather Tracking
    • Free Preschool Alphabet Printables
    • Preschool Activities Free Printables
    • FREE Preschool Games – Safari Games
    • Free Printables Zoo Animals are Here
    • FREE Sesame Street Birthday Party Decorations
    • FREE Sight Words Flash Cards
    • FREE Spring Inspired Wall Art
  • Holidays
    • Fall
    • Father’s Day
    • Fourth of July
    • FREE Easter Book for Children
    • FREE Mothers Day Book
    • FREE Mothers Day Gift
    • FREE Printable Christmas Ornaments
    • FREE Nativity Puppets – Fun Christmas Craft for Kids
    • Kid Fun Christmas Cookies
    • FREE St Patricks Day Printables FUN Pack
    • FREE Valentine’s Day Cards Kids Can Make
    • Holidays
    • Mothers Day
    • Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
    • Mothers Day Printable Pack
    • Thanksgiving
  • Recipes
    • Bread
    • Breakfast
    • Cookies
    • Dessert
    • Side Dish
    • Main Course: Beef
    • Main Course: Chicken
    • Main Course: Fish
    • Main Course: Turkey
  • eStore

Happy Holidays and Family Fun Link-up

December 26, 2013

Happy Holidays!  We’ve enjoyed time with family and friends this Christmas and we hope you have too.  If you’re a new subscriber, I host Family Fun Friday every week and I usually feature the best blog posts from the previous week’s party.  We highlight wonderful ideas for family fun, delicious recipes, activities for teaching young children and so much more.  The next two weeks will be a bit different due to the holidays but we will resume regular blog posts of Family Fun Friday, encouraging words for moms, and Preschool Tools and our Alphabet Series in the new year.

The-Best-of-2013-Blog-Party-and-2014-Kick-Off-HappyandBlessedHome.com

BLOGGERS: Now through New Year’s I’ll be hosting Family Fun Friday but gathering all the entries for a huge list of features in the New Year.  Invite your friends to the party! Please share your best posts from 2013 for a chance to be featured at our  Kick-Off in January.  I’d love to see your MOST POPULAR POSTS of 2013.  Let’s highlight the best.  Your post can be on anything as long as it’s family friendly and fun.  The round-up of YOUR best will go live on January 2 – our first party of 2014 wooo-hoo!

Family Fun Christmas Pics

I rarely post family updates on my blog, but I thought ya’ll might like some of these pictures as they exemplify holiday fun.  This first picture is of my adorable boys sledding in the snow.  Daddy is pulling the sled.  I enjoyed all the laughter and giggles as the boys played in the snow.

IMG_5606

Retelling the Christmas story using our beloved book “The Story of Christmas” by Intervisual Books.  Its a beautiful pop-up book that I got at Family Christian bookstore. We like to tell the Christmas story after we eat supper as a part of our Advent activities in December.
IMG_5826

Even though the weather has been chilly, we managed to make it outside for some fun on the slide at the local playground.  This is my 3 1/2 year old who had a blast climbing up and down the play gym.

IMG_6025

Santa Claus stopped by our house in miniature form.  He also looks just like my 23 month old. 🙂

IMG_5901

 

The weather has been nice enough that we’ve been able to spend some time walking around and visiting our neighbor’s homes. We loved all the lights, nativities, blow-up snowmen, and reindeer.  The boys had so much fun looking at Christmas lights.

IMG_5954

 

Homemade, buttery Christmas cookies coated in chocolate and decorated with sprinkles.  I made these with the boys and our whole family will be enjoying these over the holidays. If there was a way to do it, I’d have all my readers over for chocolate-coated cookies and hot-cocoa.  Now that would be a party! 😉

IMG_5856

I hope you’re enjoying the Christmas season and the New Year surrounded by family and friends.  What kinds of things is your family enjoying over the holidays?  Feel free to leave a comment and Merry Christmas!

Family-Fun-Friday-for-HappyandBlessedHome.com 
If you’re a mom keep reading
because we have some wonderful fun ideas to inspire you with your little ones and family.  My blogging friends are linking up craft ideas, fun in the kitchen, preschool & homeschool ideas, and ways to spend time as a family. You’ll need to click the header in your RSS feed to see all the wonderful link-ups on-line.  We’d love to have you stop by and leave a comment on any of the blog posts that you enjoy. 🙂

MY GIFT TO YOU: Just a quick reminder that my Christmas FUN for Preschoolers pack is FREE.  Yup – just type in coupon code: FREE to get your FREE copy.  It was on sale for $1.99 previously.  You can dress a snowman, decorate a Christmas tree, count reindeer and so much more. Click the link to read more. Christmas Fun for Preschoolers.  MERRY CHRISTMAS!

250-christmas-fun-for-preschoolers

 

Thanks to all my blogging friends for linking up last week at Family Fun Friday.  I have a special YouTube Video for you at Thank You All My Blogging Friends!  So many great ideas, crafts and things to do!  If you link up, you permit me to use your pictures/ideas as part of future posts and/or social media.

Our features will be gathered from this list of link ups for an awesome list of the best of 2013 in our kick-off for 2014 link party.

400-linking-guidelines-simple Button Code:

HappyandBlessedHome.com
 

<a href=”https://www.happyandblessedhome.com” target=”_blank”><img src=”https://www.happyandblessedhome.com/FamilyFunFriday150.jpg” alt=”HappyandBlessedHome.com” width=”200″ height=”225″ /></a>

I pray you are blessed by this effort to share ideas on having Family Fun.

In His Grip,

Monica

Blog /  Facebook /  Pinterest / Twitter /Google + / Bloglovin’

RSS Subscribers click this link to get to my blog so you can see all the great ideas.   Thank you.


If you are having trouble linking, please leave your link in the comments section and I will manually add it.  Thanks!

 

family fun friday

 

Like My Facebook Page LINK PARTY starts here (rolling list – you do not need to add to it every week):


Family Fun ·

About MPruett

I'm passionate about enriching children's lives and bringing families together. HappyandBlessedHome.com is a website dedicated to offering encouragement for moms, preschool tools, free printables, easy recipes, party plans, home care tips, and ideas for family fun. You can find me on Twitter @MonicaPruett, on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/HappyAndBlessedHome/, or on Pinterest at: https://www.pinterest.com/happyblesshome/. I look forward to "seeing" you online.

« Family Fun Friday Week 49
FREE 16 page Planner for Goal-Setting and Organizing in the New Year »

FREE Healthy Kids Charts

Healthy Kids

Hi, I’m Monica. Welcome.

I publish free recipes, crafts and printables for preschoolers, encouraging words for moms, ideas for family fun, and free stuff for your family. I preschool my two adorable boys at home. Read More

HappyandBlessedHome.com
 
HappyandBlessedHome.com
 

FREE Party Printables

  • FREE 50 Point Party Planner
  • The Perfect Chocolate Cake Recipe
  • FREE Sesame Street Party Decor
  • FREE Princess Party
  • Superman Party
  • Hunting Party
  • Doc McStuffins Party
  • Big Hero 6 Party
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Link Parties
  • Blogging
  • Home Care
  • Work With Me

Follow Me on Social

   
WORK WITH ME
   
SHOP MY STORE

Books I’ve Written


Ages 3-5 PreK CurriculumHelping Moms Prepare for Baby

[instagram-feed]

You are welcome to PIN on PINTEREST or feature one image as long as you link back & give credit. Copyright Terms & Conditions. To see my full disclosure policy please click: Disclosure Policy. To read my privacy policy please click here: Privacy Policy. To read my terms of use please click: Terms of Use.

Copyright © 2026 · Happy and Blessed Home · Hello You Designs

Copyright © 2026 · Hello Trending on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in