Meet Elvis. I am sure you will be seeing much more of Elvis in the years to come. In recent years, Santa has launched a new effort to keep track of kids and their behavior in order to determine their naughty or nice status. He sends an elf to live with the family and keep an eye on the children, monitoring their behavior. Every night he flies home to the north pole, reports his findings for the day and then returns to his home and either hides or does something cute or tricky for the kids to see the next day. You can't touch the elf, otherwise he will loose his magic and be unable to fly home to Santa. Each family names their Elf. Elvis got his name by each of us submitting a name request. Conner pulled out the winning name and Elvis it was. Sadly Elvis goes home with Santa on Christmas Eve. But he will be back again come Christmas time. We look forward to his return!
Fishing for Swedish fish. He certainly knows our family well! We LOVE swedish fish!
Decorated the chandelier with snowflakes.
Tree decorating was fun as always. We took our family trip to home depot to pick out our tree. We opened 3 or so, but took home the first one, which seemed to be the best. But when we put it in the tree stand at home we ran into a number of problems. The tree sat at an angle, which made securing it properly quite a challenge, seeing that it wanted to lean and tip over. After a number of attempts Daddy eventually went to the store for a new tree stand and made a vow to never purchase a tree from home depot again :) I told him we are just making memories! And once the kids had all the ornaments up you would never notice its crooked nature anyway!
Our darling quartet!
It was the Con's year to put up the star! Way to go Conner!
Elvis, Ariel and Spider-Man playing an intense game of go fish. It was looking like Ariel was going to be the victor!
In the midst of all our crazy Christmas plans we decided to potty train Conner as well. Why not complicate things even more, right? But Conner was a stud! We had 3 rough days that were pretty hot and cold. But then on day 4 he woke up and I swear, it just clicked! He had it! Not a single accident all day, and the rest of the days following were the same. Yes, there have been occasional accidents here and there. But he is solid as can be. We are even pull up free during naps and and night time. And mommy is appreciating being back to only 1 in diapers!
Kellen's painting of a christmas tree and presents. Many presents! And a good painting if I say so myself! He has a good artistic touch.
Awww...Santa Baby
Grammy and Conner at the ward Christmas party.
Elvis got a bit silly here and there...toilet papering the tree. The kids loved this one. Silly Elf!
Our annual baking day. The kids were great helpers this year. This is seriously one of my favorite days during the holiday season. I hope it is something we never stop doing!
This is something new we did this year that I am hoping becomes a tradition. The last weekend before Christmas day we let the kiddos sleep under the lit tree. They were so excited to do this and it was just such a sweet little thing. Conner didn't participate this year...just a bit too young still. But the older too loved it. It's good to have traditions.
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