eLfCaPaDeS of 2011 ice cream party

L was very sad this morning when she could not find the elves anywhere.

Little did we know that they had spotted her eating some of their favorite ice cream yesterday.  They snuck into the freezer and had a little ice cream party.



eLfCaPaDeS of 2011 everythings better with syrup

The elves must have been working very hard collecting things to bake, they had to take a little break to have a drink ;)



eLfCaPaDeS of 2011 sweets & treats

The elves brought all sorts of Christmas candies for the kids to make gingerbread houses!



eLfCaPaDeS of 2011 zippin down the Christmas tree..

It appears that last night the elves got a wee bit board and made a zipline from our tree!



eLfCaPaDeS of 2011 taking a little ride...

Woke up this morning to find that the elves had taken a little wagon ride around the house collecting change we had laying around for the kids to use for their RACK today.

And when we got home after school today we discovered that the elves had set up our Christmas tree!!

eLfCaPaDeS of 2011 fishing fun

This morning the elves brought the kids a little afterschool snack, they got a little bit board waiting for the kids to get up and decided to go fishing while they waited.



eLfCaPaDeS of 2011 sledding down the stairs

Those silly elves were finding another use for all the books that we have lying around.  It appeared that they were using them as tobogans and sledding down the entry way stairs!

And when we came home from school this afternoon, we found those silly elves hanging upside down from the chandelier!!





eLfCaPaDeS of 2011 Rudloph the red nose explorer...

The kids were kind of sad this morning when they couldn't find the elves :(

and boy were they excited when we went to get in the explorer and saw that the elves were driving AND they had decorated the truck with antlers and a big red nose!



eLfCaPaDeS of 2011 Let it Snow...

Skeeter and Marley were back playing with the dry erase markers and wrote on the bathroom mirror

L spent the night at her BFF's and Trixie visited them and wrote on their mirror and brought the girls Christmas tatoos!



eLfCaPaDeS of 2011 Santa Shop

Today was the 6th anual Santa Shop that the local Girl Scouts put on every December, kids from the comunity can bring a foodshelf donation to shop for hand made items to give to their friends and family for Christmas.

The kids woke up to find that Trixie, Skeeter and Marley had already colected a bunch of foodshelf items for them to go "shop" with.



eLfCaPaDeS of 2011 Markers + Elves = FUN

The elves got into the dry erase markers last night,

Trixie and Marley decorated pictures over on our family wall of friends and family

And Skeeter got pretty artistic on the kids' school pictures



eLfCaPaDeS of 2011 RACK Advent Wreath

This morning the kids woke up to find the elves had made them an advent wreath.

A very special advent wreath!  On the back of each day there is a Random Act of Christmas Kindness (RACK), so every day there will be a new RACK for the kids to do that day. They also brought post cards that they can leave with some of their RACK.