The Elf Chronicles

I really don't know when we have ever had as much fun as a family as we had this month with Cameron & Benji the Elves.  Seriously!  It has been so much fun to watch the kids race into the house literally knocking each other down as they run up the stairs to see if the elves moved around while we were out & about.  It was the first thing they asked about when I picked them up from school in the afternoons.  They would wake up extra early in the morning hoping to be the first one to see what mischief they got into during the night. 

The funniest things that they did were the things that made the biggest messes like when they rolled the Christmas tree, dumped out pasta all over the kitchen floor & when they put all the chairs up on the tables.  The last week they were here, they were especially mischievous (& messy)!  One morning early last week we woke up to find them making snow angels in flour on the kitchen counter...

Their last morning with us, we found them in the morning with my camera.  They had done all sorts of crazy stuff during the night...

and they took pictures...

to document all their fun...

the boys were most excited to see an elf wrapped like a mummy walking about!

On Christmas Eve afternoon, we returned home from Ryan's parents house to see they had made a zip line from the kitchen through the living room.


That night they left us, but not before leaving a gift & a little note to remind us that although we won't see them until next December, they always see us.  Hopefully my kiddos will remember that all throughout the year!

HaPpY HaPpY New Year to you all!