We love Christmastime around here! The kind spirit that it brings is just so filling and warm on a person's soul!
So about a 10 days before Christmas Santa sent the boy's an ELF ON THE SHELF!
He showed up one morning and decorated our kitchen table for a fun "Yay it's Christmas" breakfast!
The boy's were so excited, and didn't know what to think! After we read the story of what having an Elf in our home during the Christmas season meant, it got super fun!
The boy's decided to name their little Elf Mack!
And he had lots of fun with our little men this Christmas!
Here is the morning he came!
The next morning he was in a stocking with a letter from Santa saying how excited he was for the boy's and Mack! And an official Certificate of Adoption came to!
Then he was in our tree, with the boy's underoo's hanging all over!
Ha! Ha!
Every morning, it was a fun little game for the boy's to find Mack!
This morning he was in the fridge and had turned our milk green and red!
The boy's thought he brought them presents on this morning, but instead he had just wrapped their shoes up!
Traceon accidentally touched Mack the Elf, and you can't do that or his magic goes away! So Santa sent us a recovery kit to fix him up, and then the next morning he had made himself an Elf Kissing Booth! Yummy chocolate kisses for the taking!
He decided to read a Christmas story to the Christmastime friends!
Then he took a ride on one of mom's reindeer decorations!
The last night he was here (because on Christmas Eve he has to fly back home with Santa) he drew funny things on the boy's pictures! Aydan was highly offended by this, but kept saying he was "jealous." I guess he didn't like Mack's sense of humor!
We have an advent calender, but didn't do and advent activity every day of December, just a few days!
One day we made these cute milk-jug snowmen!
Tortilla snowflake treats!
Polar Express night!
Train treat.....
Snowman snow globes, and then a quiet movie night snuggled up watching the movie!
We made these cute friends to play with!
We had an actual "true meaning of Christmas" day! Learning all about long ago when baby Jesus was sent to us! And learning about God's promise and gift to us!
We made hand print ornaments!
One of our family's FAVORITE Christmas traditions is making gingerbread houses!
This year Trace got to make his very own for the first time!
Here's dad's finished house!
Aydan's finished house!
Mom's finished house!
We wrote to Santa, telling him what to bring us!
Then saw him in the mall!
It was the first year (except when he was brand new, and slept through the experience) that Traceon didn't cry! He had so much fun sitting on Santa's lap! Look how cute and grown up he is!
I made these cute "Christmas pencil" treats for Aydan's teacher's! They were fun to make, and so DARLING!
One night we made Christmas cookie cutter mini pizza's!
Another night we took the Christmas Express to look at Christmas lights around town!
The boy's got out of the bath and by their jammies were special tickets to ride the Christmas Express! They got dressed and headed upstairs where there was hot chocolate, popcorn, and blankets waiting for them! They gathered everything and headed to the Christmas Express (the truck) where they got their special tickets punched. Aydan's was punched into an "A" and Traceon's into a "T!"
They were so excited! We saw some pretty cool lights too!
Daddy heard from one of his co-workers about this house out in Iona that played it's lights to Christmas music! This house was awesome! It had about 15-20 mins of songs, and the lights blinked to the beat of each song! So fun and cute!
One night we had our nephew's/buds over to build some SLEIGHS!
Lowe's puts on this little building workshop every other week with special little kits for kids to build. We have never gone because daddy just brings them home to us! Uncle Justin got all the boys hooked up with aprons, safety goggles, and mini hammers! The boy's were so excited to start building!
All done with their cute Christmas sleigh's!
One thing I did do this year was put our names on our stockings! Cute huh!?
We have had a blast getting ready for Christmas by doing all kinds of activities!
Exciting NEWS!
Justin got accepted to graduate ISU with a Bachelor's in Health care Administration!
He also got his internship at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center (the biggest and best health care facility around here) and starts the first week of January!
He will be awarded his diploma after finishing his internship, which sounds like will only take about 6-8 weeks!
Way to go JP! We need to celebrate!
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