Christmas Eve

Santa comes tonight!!!! I am like a child on Christmas Eve ;) I have always loved Christmas Eve. Now as a parent, I love it more. To see the excitement in your childs eyes as they open their gifts and see Christmas magic thru their eyes!
 Today we get to be with J's family. Where there is a ton of kids and lots of noise and action. Tomorrow is a quiet day with my family after we have Christmas at our home.

O and I ruined my CHristmas surprise this year! BOO!! I DO NOT like to know my presents! But I discovered accidently on the credit card bill.. So I guess that is another reason I am so giddy today. Tomorrow i FINALLY GET my IPAD :) YIPPEE!! LOL

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas..

More of Elfie

 Fishing for Goldfish

Reading about elfs and Santa to Marie, Rudolph, Fancy Nancy, hippo, puppy and Barbie

:) We have enjoyed Elfie, he will be leaving tomorrow night. Hopefully he stays out of mischief tonight

All done....

And ready for Christmas. Just a few more days till Santa comes. Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!       

Oh, and there will be a couple cakes to post in January! Oven back to normal and ready to get back to caking!

School Christmas Party

Running behind on posts! But last week was the end of the first semester of 1st grade for R. I can't believe how fast time flies by! Lots of fun at the Christmas Party!
I am very blessed to be the home room mom for R's class. I love every minute of it.

This snowman on a stick is VERY deceiving! Looks so nice and pretty here. Unfortunatley, that is NOT how they ended up going home with the kids. Oh, a few were ok, but there were a few that were awful. I am hoping the parents thought they got smushed in the backpacks LOL. Needless to say, I WON"T be doing these again. When you put the stick thru the donuts, the donuts sometimes crack. GRRR!!!!!! Anyway, they were a pain, but still fun to do! :)

The snack for the party was Smore's. Chosen by the other 1st grade homeroom moms. I despise cold smores so I was determined to somehow have a 'cold smore' with 'melted chocolate' if that makes sense! Anyway, I melted the almond bark, and put on 2 graham crackers, then put a peppermint marshmallow on top then drizzled with more chocolate. They were soo yummy! The new seasonal marshmallows have a tiny hint of peppermint flavor. Just enough! The kids loved them and even the parents that tried them liked them!

Gift exchange present:

See the super cute Elf shirt Rae is wearing??? Loved it!!

Christmas KitKat cake

Made for our wonderful teachers today!

The Jolly Old Elf

A visit to Santa was made in Branson when we were there for Thanksgiving.

Lots of wishes were made I'm sure!

Speaking of elves, we have started the Elf on the Shelf tradition at our household. Our Elf, named Elfie, has been having a bit too much fun here!

 taking a ride with Barbie

 sitting on the countdown snowman

 took a ride with rudolph!

wrote a note to Raegan...

Christmas tree

This past Monday, we went in search of a beautiful Christmas tree. It wasn't long, till we found it and was headed home ;)