twinkle

twinkle, twinkle little elf, sitting there upon your shelf...

we jumped on the elf on the shelf bandwagon and goodness sakes! have we been having fun!

our elf, "twinkle" arrived on december first and brought this fabulous advent calendar (made my my super-crafty aunt)

every day, we look for miss twinkle and check to see what she brought us from the north pole in our count-down calendar

on day one - the girls found these santa ring pops - sugar for breakfast?  why not?

one day we woke to find twinkle helping herself to some raisin bran.  another day she had dug through the junk drawer and found our expo marker.....uh oh!

and who knew that elves can spell?

what's an elf to do when there is only one A in the set of blocks?  

good thing Twinkle is resourceful and found the construction paper  to remedy such a situation. ;)

i was not as thorough with my picture taking as i would have liked

i forgot to take a photo on the days she was hiding in the tree, wrote a note on the deck door with window markers, hung from the fan in Tulip's room and wore a Peach's sock on her head.

goofy little elf....

we had our little family Christmas just tonight.

the girls opened three gifts from us after we talked about how Jesus was given three gifts by the wise men.  they each also had a gift for each other and Peach had gifts for momma and daddy.

afterwards, we sprinkled magic reindeer food on the front lawn, set out cookies and milk for Santa and read some stories about Jesus, the greatest gift of all.

now the peanuts are snug in bed and Santa has tucked a special treat for each of them under the tree and filled their stockings.

we're sending Twinkle back to the North Pole until next year, when the magic will start all over again. :)