Elf on the Shelf: Photos

I am totally having more fun than the kids I think lol..I mean the first thing they want to do in the mornings is find him and they really love all of his little adventures but I am having a blast with it this year lol.

Ella is still a little clueless about the whole Elf/Santa thing b/c she's only 3 but Avery at 6 is a total believer and I'm so glad..I know I probably only have a couple more short years that he really believes and I want to just bottle it up and save it.
 
I'm pretty sure I am LOL! L.J. loves it and wants to see what he does every day, but I secretly think he knows it's me. Oh well...as long as he plays along I get to have fun too :)

Ours Post-It Noted the playroom today.
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I'm totally having as much fun as they are! :D What has surprised me is how many ideas I come up with on the fly. I totally thought I'd plan every one out based on an internet idea but that hasn't been the case :)
 
Taking a relaxing marshmallow bubble bath...Ella literally squealed with delight when she saw this and said, "he's taking a bath in marshmewwows!"

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This morning he had a message for L.J. on his last day at school before Christmas break.
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Today he heard the Chipmunk movie is in theaters so he thought he'd parade them around the living room for all the other toys to see.
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This is such a cute idea! I've never heard of this, but I'm seriously concidering doing this next year!
 
Catching up on scrapping and posting today.

Dec 5 - Visiting with a friend.
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Dec 6 - Caught Christopher peeking at unwrapped gifts.
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Dec 7 - Christopher found an elf sized breakfast.
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Dec 8 - Christopher thinks that these look like the apples Mrs. Claus uses in her apple pies.
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Dec 9 - Christopher found my label maker and decided to print Merry Christmas labels.
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Dec 10 - Christopher heard that we went to the movie theater to see Arthur Christmas today. He is a little homesick.
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Dec 11 - Inspecting wrapped presents
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Dec 12 - Silly elf! Christopher was upside down on the chandelier this morning.
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Dec 13 - Christopher looking for bananas.
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Dec 14 - Christopher playing with the Charlie Brown snow globe.
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Dec 15 - Watching a Charlie Brown Christmas.
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Dec 16 - Pizza Night! Christopher enjoyed an elf sized slice (gluten free, of course) with mini pepperonis.
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Dec 17 - Christopher following bird tracks in the snow. I brought him inside because it is too cold to stay outside all day.
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Dec 18 - Christopher spinning on the Cat in the Hat ball toy. Careful Christopher!
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I decided at the last minute to do it (I figured better late than never). I'm SO glad I did!! Since I have less days - I've been doing my fave set-ups, so these are copies of what y'all have already done :) Thank you SO much for the great ideas!!!

Day 1: Our elf arrives :) He is eventually named Burkey (well - he has two names: Brian & Burkey, but Burkey is my fave, so online I refer to him as that, lol.)
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Day 2: Burkey TP'd the tree. The kids got a kick out of this! :)
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Up close of the TPing elf :p
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Day 3: Burkey barricaded the boys in their side of the house. Liam kept scolding Burkey, telling him he was being very naughty and had to be better, lol. Connor got to run through it at the end of the day :)
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Burkey decided to just have fun and play with some legos. He made a couple houses and then ended up getting stuck inside the last house, lol. He's been trapped there all day :)
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Last night was a late night for us so this is the best I could do..posing him with Ella's new Miss Muffin doll and taking a photo in horrible light

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L.J. set this up yesterday...the note says "Fire Mom and L.J.". He tore up little bits of orange paper and taped them to the container with the "coal" (fishing weights) underneath. I always hoped he'd get some of my creativity :)
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This morning he left clues around the house leading L.J. to the pantry where he had a Skittles surprise for him.
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Skippy thinks something is very funny, wonder what it is. Keira is confused as to why he has all of our stockings.

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Skippy has replaced our stockings with underwear, LOL! You guys get the picture, you don't need to see mine or Sean's underwear do you? LOL!

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Buddy brought the kids a gingerbread train to make today since it's so rainy and yucky outside....and 70 degrees...4 days before Christmas. I slept with the A/C on last night!

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Burkey got into the TP again, but this time just left a message instead of putting it all over the tree, lol. The kids also got a message from Santa say they were on the nice list (via the Portable North Pole site) :D
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And tonight I decided to give the red paint a try. Every night I felt they were too freshly asleep to get their noses painted. Tonight I was up a little later than normal (almost forgot to do something with Burkey, lol) and I decided to do it! It went great (I warmed up the paint in the microwave - I think that helped). I even painted hubby's nose and my nose, lol :)
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Oh and the "Look outside" part is cuz we got snow after everyone fell asleep :D
 
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Almost to the end of our Elves adventures..I've had so much fun doing this and seeing all of y'alls photos but I have to say I'm kind of glad he's going back to the North Pole tomorrow night lol

One last goodie from Buddy..my kids have been OBSESSED with Charlie Brown Christmas this year..so he brought them some new mugs and cocoa last night.
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Julie Billingsley said:
I saw on the news that parts of NM were expecting 12" over night! How much did you get?
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Just a couple inches so far. It was supposed to be gone by tomorrow, but now it's saying it will snow more tomorrow and stay till Sunday :D (YAY!) We're in the southern part - there's been a blizzard going on in the northern part all week I guess. It's insane (but normal - I've done Christmas in Farminton, NM (by the 4 corners area) and we had snow the whole time).
 
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