Elvis the Elf leading up to Christmas..

 Getting help brushing her teeth!

I think I missed a day or two with Elvis, the flu hit 3/5 of us and I was 1 of them:/ Plus one of those days, dad touched elvis by tipping her over while she was going on a horse ride through the living room, so....she didn't move!

 Christmas for us came early -on Friday since we went to KS for the holiday. On the last day Elvis returned from the North Pole with a Baby that we named Jack.  Since it was the last night for Elvis, the kids were allowed time to tough, hugs and kiss Elvis and Jack goodbye.

 Andon's turn(he shared his turn with Kendall)

Devin(photobombed by little sister)

 

Deon and the kids headed out to look at lights while I cleaned up dinner and "went to the store". We returned to a lite porch light(so we knew Santa was gone) and opened gifts.

 Stockings had a book for each, hockey cards for one and football cards for the other with some candy K-had pink Hello Kitty Coco and candy with her book

 Devin got a Furby, Itunes, head phones, & Helmet for horse riding

 Deon got a new coffee cup, jeans and tee-shirt

 Trying on the new helmet

 Kendall got a Fijit, volleyball, camera/video recorder,  Barbie movie and Taylor Swift CD, & Easy Bake Oven food.

 I got new hand towels and a calendar(tradition I ask for every year)

Andon got Itunes, head phones, Hockey water bottle and skate covers, Goalie pads(he has lived in).

 

Elvis-week 2

 Hiding in the tree

 Getting in a quick workout

 Potty break

 The kids set up this bed for Elvis and she found American Girl cucumber stickers for her eyes

 Marshmallow hot tubing(Kendall ate most of the marshmallow after school, it was full in the morning)

 Again the kids set up this table for Elvis

 Doing rope climbs

 Note from Kendall

 Movie Night-used the "chairs" (inside of her hats with doll pillows) set up for them

 Again...table set up for her...Elvis decided to play Hungry Hippo after eating cookies and Kisses

 Eating the last Kiss

 Changing the Christmas counter-this one was tough-Andon searched all morning and Kendall ended up finding her 1st!

Reading the Christmas Sweater with Friends

 

 

Weekly update: PTO and Scout pack meeitng was Thursday-I needed to be cloned, Friday my sister Cindy graduated so my parents came out. Kendall wanted to go to her graduation, so my parents took her to dinner with them and to the graduation. We went to Wahoos for dinner with the boys, I ordered a Sunshine in a can and the cashier asked for my ID! Does it get any better than that? NO!

Shopped with the girls Saturday, Devin and grandpa spent the afternoon together while Andon was home sick :( Deon stayed with him and worked on things around home.

Sunday we meet for lunch, swam and had dinner at the house with my parents.

 

Liza came over Friday and we made these:

Sunday school teachers, bus driver and girl scout leader







Wrestling

A little late...but here are pictures from Devin's last wrestling meet:

 A quick riding lesson with Trisha & Phoenix after the meet...

 before heading to Pizza Hut for an end of season party!

Devin enjoyed wrestling and even made a few new friends!

Adopted Elvis the elf

I was a little mixed on this adoption simpily because my boys are older and I thought they would enjoy her...Was I wrong! Andon is the first one up in the mornings and has always found her. He is quite interesrted in our elf. He may have accidentley touched her, but he left a note saying he was sorry.

 We made cookies for Elvis to welcome her into our family and she got the milk herself

 Climbing the kitchen light

 Fishing

 On the climbing wall

 Connect 4 with the nutcracker

Making steel cut oats in the crock pot for the family since we had a busy Saturday

 Elvis found a man friend while driving around in Barbie's Jeep-Kendall added pink bunny in the morning.

 Checking on baby Jesus-note Elvis' man friend again

 Hearding farm animals

A game of air hockey

 

Stay tuned for the next couple weeks with Elvis

Thanksgiving break

Over break we put up the tree:

 Don't let them fool you...they look as though they are getting along, however they were arguing over ornaments that were theirs, where to hang ornaments etc.

My helper

 Boys lost decorating interest and moved on to Fort Making

Snow flakes

On Thanksgiving day; I baked a ham, watched Football, and went black Thursday shopping with Liza.

Friday we relaxed around the house and continued our holiday tradition of the Gingerbread houses:

 

The boys slept on the futon over break

Saturday morning the girls had a spa morning

 

While we were spa-ing, the boys were playing football out front with dad and finishing my towel hook rack.