Our Elf is Here!!

Deer, was our Elf's name last year.  This year we've just made it real simple.  Elf!  Love the names kids give things!!  

/Day 1/

His first appearance at our house was actually in the car in Makenzie's seat!!  He was all buckled in like a good little Elf to head to the Christmas Lights Parade.  

 /Day 2/
The next morning Elf got into our monster loot of candy from the parade.  He had a WHOLE line of candy he was ready to gobble up and was happily eating a sucker while wearing a "Be Nice" pin and some sort of luggage ID as a necklace.  It was funny for a min and then Makenzie decided that the elf was really bad and needed to sit in the corner.  He got into candy without asking and made a mess!!  She did NOT want him around here if he was going to be getting into trouble!  (The Santa Clause is Coming to Town Song is getting to her... she was in tears one day...guilty conscience!  We now have a sticker chart to show her all the good things she does!)

/Day 3/
Thank you Elf for pointing out to us that we forgot a Fall Decor!  Miss Madison is SO good at finding things and was the one who found Elf way up there.

 /Day 4/
Makenzie wouldn't let me take a picture of Day 4.  Elf had found our goldfish and was on top of the tank peaking in.  (No our goldfish doesn't have a name.  It should.  I'm stinking proud of that thing. All of the fish I have ever bough... and I have bought A LOT... die... very quickly.  (Remember Makenzie's Birthday Fish that died before her party was over?)  On a whim, us girls were at the store one evening while Matt was hunting and came back with 5 goldfish.  I told the girls they would be around for the weekend and then have to go.  They all lasted a week.  A couple died after a week.  A couple more the next week.  And it's now been 2 months and the FISH IS STILL ALIVE!)

/Day 5/
This elf has a sweet tooth!  Very smart to get up out of Makenzie's reach so she wouldn't steal the sucker.

/Day 6/

Quietly reading some Christmas books.

/Day 7/

No pic... sorry. Elf snoozed happily under the tree!  AND under the cat!  :-/  It took awhile for the Elf to be found since the cat WAS happily sleeping under the tree.  

/Day 8/

Woot Woot!!  Early Christmas present straight from the North Pole!!  A boxed DVD collection of the Christmas Classics!  Good thing because does anyone notice that all the specials are on AFTER the kids go to bed!?!?  Drives me crazy.  Now we can watch it whenever :-)  

/Day 9/

Miss Makenzie woke up with Elf snuggled up with her in HER bed!!  Whoa, was THAT a surprise!  Guess he learned sleeping under the tree wasn't a good idea.

/Day 10/

Amen to this one.  It's December 10.  It's sunny.  I see grass.  A month ago I checked the extended forecast and it was winter... low low temps, no sun, snow almost every day, perfect.  It's been the opposite since Thanksgiving (which we HAD snow!).  It's been cold.  But sunny and no snow.  We have 15 days till Christmas... LET IT SNOW!!!