samantha liz

It’s Christmas Eve, so we celebrated the season with an Elf Party! Complete with present wrapping races and pasta with syrup and marshmallows!

The elves brought out all the ingredients to make our favorite cookies this morning.

Challenge met.

Two more sleeps until Christmas!

The kids love Christmas movies and they love bingo, so it was quite a natural jump for the elves to combine the two this morning.

They also didn’t forget about Colin, who was quite excited to dress up like a Christmas tree.

When they were done playing, the elves also brought an Christmas Movie emoji game for Molly to solve as Colin looked on with awe.

Elfie and Elfa did it again, having gathered all their plush friends to have a bit of a read along.

They also found a book that has been hiding on the shelves because my mommy brain cringes everytime i think about the kids fingerpainting…

But, as usual, the elves knew better… Just look at the joy in his eyes.

With that, we have only 4 sleeps left until Christmas morning! ❤️

Winding down to the last few days before Christmas, Elfie and Elfa brought some low key fun today with some props for making our photos a bit more festive.

Mission accomplished.

I’ve heard that some children dream of sugar plums dancing… this little boy dreams of waffles. When we awoke, the kids all ran to see what the elves did last night. They were not disappointed. 😉 The two eldest boys even danced for their breakfast.

Do you like waffles? We sure do!

Today we awoke to a scavenger hunt! The kids dove right in, running through the entire house while I filmed them read and solve each clue, starting with Oreos and ending with holiday glow sticks!

Please excuse the vertical video, as I was filming for my instastories, but here is the full length hunt. Not sped up, for your viewing enjoyment. 

It’s funny, whenever the elves bring a craft to work on, I am always on guard, worried that they won’t like it.

However , every time they really take to it. From the littlest guys…

to the biggest ones.

The kids made stuffies with felt and they came out super cute!

Thomas worked intently for at least an hour on his. He made a great penguin.

Marcus made an adorable ornament…

and Molly made a super cute stocking! Happy crafting!

It’s become a tradition for the elves to bring us pajamas and we head out at night checking out Christmas lights in the neighborhood.

Just look at what a difference a year makes!

The kids all got in their PJs tonight and posed for some fireplace photos.Then, we got our warmest blankets and hopped into the car for our outing!

We didn’t have to travel very far to see some great lights, this one was just down the block from our home.

That turned out to be a very good thing, since the littlest guy didn’t last all that long before nodding off.

Hopefully he dreamt of the most amazing Christmas light spectacular, straight from the North Pole! ❤️

What’s yummy and messy and fun to build?

Why, gingerbread houses, of course!

The kids each picked their favorite and went straight to work like good little elves this morning.

Another creative Elfie and Elfa morning around these parts. Complete with silly smiles and thumbs ups!❤️