Countdown to Christmas: The Nut Sack

It's week three of Elfcapades and the Countdown to Christmas with Sugarplum Creations!

Can you believe that there are only 2 days until Christmas?

 

We are all feeling so much better and just in time for Winter Break!  18 days of togetherness!  

My husband even came home from work at 10:45am yesterday and announced that he's off from work until January 3rd.  I have to admit that he kind of scared the crap out of me because the last time he came home from work unannounced....I was 8 months pregnant and he had been laid off.

We celebrated his early holiday release (just from jail...from work) by going to see Chipwrecked!

It was pretty good.

Anyway....back Christmas.

Our week started off with the much anticipated Kindergarten Holiday Party.  I was very, very proud of my cookie decorating station. 

 The kids had a fabulous time and everything went very smoothly.  

Here is a little movie trailer of the party. 

We discovered that the elves are Bronco fans.

And they would probably like Santa to bring them some Apple products for Christmas.

They decorated cookies for us too.

One night we went to dinner and then drove around looking at Christmas Lights. 

This was our favorite house!

Yesterday was the annual 'filling of Daddy's Nut Sack'.

We've loaded up on cheese, crackers and salami and I'm in the process of making Gravlax.

Bring on Christmas!!

Countdown to Christmas: A Very Perry Christmas

Hello and welcome to week two of Elfcapades and the Countdown to Christmas!

Our elves have been a tad under the weather this week and I've been downright sick so there aren't many pictures of the shenanigans.

I'm hoping next week will be better.

One day, it could have been Thursday.....they kidnapped some buddies from the kids' beds and got the LEGO Harry Potter Game out.  I don't know who was winning but they all seemed to be having fun.

Over the weekend, the elves brought a movie. Phineas and Ferb: A Very Perry Christmas

This couldn't have come at a better time!  It's the perfect 79 minute distraction so that sick Mommy can take a nap on the couch.  Thank you Vincent and Poe!

One night, the elves were so lazy that they just wrote a note.

Another night...they hid in the entertainment center and it took the kids 30 minutes to find them.

In my nyquil induced haze, I decided that the easiest thing for the elves to do on Tuesday night was to just sleep with the kids.  This ended up being one of their best hiding places ever because kids never thought to look BESIDE THEM for the elves and thought the elves had left town again.

Winter break is only two days away so the elves have all kinds of plans for them.  Which is code for Mommy better figure some things out!

Do you have a post about getting ready for Christmas or your elf on the shelf?  Link up with Liz from Sugarplum Creations!

Are you a movie lover? The Golden Globe nominations where this morning and I put the best picture nominees in the I Love Movies tab.  How many have you seen already?

My LIttle Elf

Elfcapades: A Very Lego Christmas

It's that time of year again!

ELFCAPADES!

This year's theme is a Very Lego Christmas.  I should have warned all of you to buy stock in LEGO.  It's like we have a disease that makes us crave them.  And I can't believe that I've been afflicted too.  I dream about LEGO Christmas Villages.

Poe and Vincent arrived crash landed on Thursday December 1st.  We were anxiously awaiting their arrival!

Barbie was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

On the second day of Elfcapades, Vincent and Poe tried to make Hot Chocolate.  Good thing they didn't know that the fabulous Hot Chocolate Balls that I found on pinterest where in the freezer!

Mommy's K Cups are off limits!

They also told us that we should go buy a Christmas tree.

the tree is bigger than it appears.....

The next day....the elves brought us a brand new Wii game.  It's something about Mickey Mouse painting.

Everyone except for Mallory was excited to see that the elves brought brand new Christmas Jammies! 

The next day....was a sad, sad day.  The Weiss Children were very, very naughty.  There was an incident involving every single wash cloth in our apartment.  There has only been one other time that the elves had to return to the North Pole and the perp was the same.

The kids wrote Santa letters of apology and the elves took them home with them.

Lucky for them....Santa is forgiving and let them come back after a day.

TA DA

The elves didn't waste any time finding more shenanigans.  They took the kids' underwear out of their drawers and attached them to the tree!

I really love how excited the kids are about Christmas this year!  We love our Elfcapades!

Do you have a post about Christmas in your house?  Link up with Liz at Sugarplum Creations!