a happy merry christmas...

that's just what we had, a happy merry christmas!

the boys always open one gift on christmas eve, their christmas jammies...

and then they hang their stockings, letters to santa and off to bed for the anticipation for christmas morning!

once again, mumma woke up first anxiously awaiting on the boys...

such a fun time as a parent to see the excitment on christmas morning!

we then enjoyed the rest of the day with our families coming and going for breakfast and dinner...

 thank you very much to our families for visiting us at our house this year throughout the day.  the boys had a great day with you all and playing with all their new gifts.

we hope you all had a wonderful happy merry christmas!

elves at work...

homemade teacher gifts was the executive decision by mumma elf!

first up was talen's head preschool teacher's gift.  whenever i saw this idea, it was a must!

i was very impressed with talen's patience on this project.  he helped in lining up the order of crayons that he wanted, cutting the crayons (oh so carefully), and putting them into position as i layed down the glue.

he was very excited to bring it into school for her & the verdict per talen was that she loved it!

next up...holiday treats...

talen has quite a few assistant teachers in the classroom and ryley has 2 teachers...

so there were lots of pretzel kisses and bugle santa hat treats to be made!

what we make must be wrapped and tied with a bow!

a few others we needed to extend a merry christmas to were our special bank tellers who are extremely patient with our boys doing laps in the bank about 3 times a week...

may you all enjoy some holiday treats over the weekend that is approaching oh so fast!

merry - almost - christmas!

countdown to christmas...

i finally finished our advent calendar...better late than never right?

i got the idea after december had started and didn't want to wait till next year for this project.  my mom luckily had an old shutter on hand at her shop and painted it white for me, this was the base of the advent calendar!  i then stamped little brown paper bags for each day of the month and filled them with our fav...christmas m&m's!

who would have thought painting clothespins would be such a process?!

so we started our countdown on december 16th once i finally finished...

the last week is the most exciting part of the countdown anyways, right?!