Happy Birthday, Jesus- A GIVEAWAY

This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to commenter #23 {says Random.org}, the WINNER! That's Annan T. and I will get in touch with you ASAP!
Congrats, Annan!

When my friends at Dayspring saw that Henry was not a fan of Santa, they asked if they could send me a Happy Birthday, Jesus package to see if he liked that any better.

Funny thing is, they had already given me one at She Speaks this summer and I had tucked it away in a special place to remember it. Except that I had completely forgotten it.
I'm sure you don't ever do this, right?

I was so excited to pull it out and have a Happy Birthday, Jesus party this week! My parents have been here all week, so mom was behind the scenes helping me pull this together. She's a little blog shy, but know that I didn't come this organized; I had help!


The Happy Birthday, Jesus set comes with a guidebook, candles, plates, napkins, noisemakers, balloons and a banner. There is also a HUGE interactive portion online that includes games and activities that we LOVE!

The Really Woolly line is focused around these adorable lambs {Jacob and Grace; they are brother and sister} who learn about Jesus. We have the fantastic movie that comes with the package, as well! The truth is, I was a little skeptical because they aren't the Wonder Pets or Dora, but Ollie loves them. As in, he has the stuffed animals and is sleeping with them now because they are his "new friends".

To start the party, our head chef put on his apron to cook some gourmet cookies.
Or else it was just a Target brand pre-packaged version of cookies. Either way, he mixed.
Then we cut out some Christmas shapes while Henry found the horns.
This was WAY better than meeting Santa!
Then, while the cookies were baking, I brought out our stuffed nativity {not from Dayspring- so sorry! I don't know where you can get them! It was a shower gift when I was pregnant with Ollie 4 + years ago, but I will research for you.} to act out the story of Jesus's birthday.
This nativity rocks because it is really interactive.
And you don't have to glue the wiseman's "feet" back one like I've had to do with our real one once already this year.

Then the cookies were done and we got to sing Happy Birthday to Jesus and blow out the candles!


By far, this was the most fun and meaningful thing I have done with my children this Christmas. They REALLY got it- especially Ollie {4}- probably because we go to birthday parties pretty often. With a little bit of effort, we got together a family birthday party for Jesus, told the story of His birth a couple of times {with nativity and provided sticker and story book} and the kids had a blast!

They asked if we could have a party for Jesus every day.

Sound like fun? Well I want you to be able to have fun, too!

Dayspring generously sent a package and some goodies for you, as well!
Here is the giveaway:
One lucky winner will receive a Happy Birthday, Jesus package for your own party PLUS an adult Christmas apron with TWO matching child aprons {you'll notice my child #2 wasn't cooperating for the apron picture, but there are two aprons}.

Where was that child #2, you ask?
Still playing with the horns and loving every minute of it.


All you need to do to enter is leave a comment on this post {click the button WAY down at the bottom of THIS post that says COMMENTS}. And be sure to leave your e-mail address if you want me to be able to contact you! If you don't have this set up through Blogger, here's how to do it.
One comment per person, please.
And I will get choose a winner randomly on Monday, 12/ 21! YIKES! Fast!!

That way I can be sure to mail this to you before Christmas. I super, double promise it will be there before Christmas.
{Or else I will punish myself by locking me and Henry in a room together with the horns. And that is no way to spend Christmas. Really- it's not that bad; he loves them!}

Good luck!