Happy Thanksgiving!

Wow where has this year gone? It feels like I blinked my eyes and now the year is almost over.  This year we went to my parents house to eat. Needless to say we became every full with all the food. Turkey, green beans casserole, gravy, stuffing, coleslaw, some cherry pudding thing, broccoli and rice casserole, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, and rolls.  And this was just for 10 people! After everyone ate and the girls cleaned up the kitchen while the guys went to watch TV, why does that always happened that the men leave when its time to clean up? The 4 grandkids put the ornaments on grandma and grandpa’s Christmas tree. Katey this year learned how to play spoons. For those of you who have never played the game you are missing out on  a lot of fun. The object of the game is to collect 4 matching cars (all 4’s or K”s)  When you have 4 matching cards you grab a spoon that is sitting in the middle. Since you have one less spoon than the number of people playing. For direction click here. Well since she was sitting next to grandma and just learning she was at first getting help but when she caught on she and grandma began to cheat by helping each other to win. At one point grandpa tried to cheat by keeping a card from the previous hand but he still lost. It was so much fun watching her learn how to play the game and watching her win. Needless to say I really think this is something that we will be playing at the get together’s   from now.

Also our elf is back! The kids love trying to find “elfie” everyday. I love being able to say “remember elfie is watching” and that normally gets some better behavior out of the kids

why do they have to wake up so darn early??

Well the most of you know we adopted and elf, Elfie, from Santa this past week. Well Elfie is a great way to make the kids listen. "You better stop yelling cuz remember Elfie is watching and will tell Santa" is all that is really needed and they look at Elfie and stop! But the other day Katey comes into our room at 5 am! At first I thought she was gonna say she didn't feel good or something. But oh NO. She wasn't able to find Elfie! "Mama I can't find Elfie, I look everywhere" ERRR damn elf is all I could think of. Told her I would take a shower then I would come and help them, by this time she had waken Camron to help find the darn elf. 15 mins later............ "mom we still can't find Elfie, maybe we woke up too early and hes not back yet" I agree with that one way too much. Told her to look in the kitchen, dinning room, and living room again Iam sure Elfie made it back. A min later "MOM I found him, he's in the tree up high. OH he has something!" Yes Elfie bought the kids some candy all the way from the north pole.
Since they thought is was cool to get candy I thought since I was at walmart I might as well as get some cheap candy since they thought it was neat. So off to the store Camron, Jacob, and Kayden and I go. We found a candy cane with m&m's in them and a few more items. Well last night when Elfie came back he bought the candy cane thing with him. So today when I opened them Camron, the turkey says" Elfie didn't bring them WE bought them" Smart little turkey, they don't forget do they?

welcome elfie

Well the other day one of Santa's elfs came to visit us thru the holidays. How did we get an elf you might ask, well my freind Amanda heard about it thru the grapevine, and I called Santa the main elf himself and asked if we could borrow one. He told me where to get him. So on Tues Camron, Jacob and headed to the mall, another place where you can adopt him at, and picked out our elf. After we bought him we went and told Santa that we got our elf. Santa was happy to hear that on of his elfs found a good home for the holidays! So Elfie went thru 2 other names before the kids agreed on Elfie, his first name was Santa Michael then Santa. He stared off on the entertainment center and when the kids got up he was found in Jacob's stocking. I found out the elfs have senstive hearing, because the kids got a letter from Santa and it told Camron to stop yelling/screaming cuz it hurts elfie's ears. And guess what no yelling/screaming from him today! Maybe this elf should've came sooner. The kids are happy to share and show Elfie off to anyone who comes in the house. Its gonna be a sad day when Elfie has to go back to the north pole on christmas eve but at least he will be back next year.