24 nights of Elf on A Shelf

Day One: Meet Cocoa! The newest Christmas tradition in our house!

Repels from the ceiling fan...

Takes a marshmallow bath....

reads to action figures....

The above took more than one picture to explain... you see he decided to graffiti the entire bathroom!

 decorates the tree in 'unmentionables"

Hanging out with The Littlest Pet Shop group

disguises himself in  a picture frame

goes for a joy ride in Joker's van

Elf has a sick day....

Cocoa packs the kids school lunches

Even an Elf needs coffee on Monday mornings....

Some one's hungry.....

An Elf Rock star!!

An elf's favorite snack!

He decided to ride in the van with us all day!

In the above two pictures, he is writing a letter to Santa reporting on the kids behavior

Elf makes himself part of the village....

Elf goes fishing....

He hides on the mantle...

Keeping things real!!! Jesus is the reason for the reason!

Elf TP's a tree!

Elf Snow Angels!

 

Mr. Cocoa was very naughty on this night, he painted faces and wrapped their doors in wrapping paper!!

The last day of the season and Cocoa leaves a good-bye letter.

 

 

New Family Pictures

My wonderful blog designer Mary, at Bright Sunshine Designs updated our blog pictures! We had new family pictures made last month and I wanted to share some of my favorites! As a general rule, we only get family pictures made once a year! Although, I try to have spring pictures of just the kids made.  It is stressful to get 5 people to smile, pose and look at a camera at the same time!

I love this one, except our little stinker is making a crazy face! There is always one person not smiling...

Christopher age 8

Makayla age 10

James Henry age 4

Update on Collin

 When I was home over Thanksgiving I was able to get some snuggle time with Collin, finally! When he was born he was too sick for me to hold him. So, I had to wait until Thanksgiving when we were back in town.

This was a beautiful moment for me!

                                                  
I really didn't want to leave him and come back to Texas! However, on November 30th, his daddy's birthday when Collin was 60 days old, he went home!!!

Look at those cheeks!

He was born on his brother's birthday and went home on his daddy's! He is doing really well. We all know God bought Collin here to change the world and he will do great things! While, he will still have to overcome many hurdles, and see many doctors, we know he will be fine, he has already overcame so much!

He is an answered prayer and he is loved so much!

This picture is from last night, he loves to sleep in his swing! His mama says it produces an instant baby coma! Today he weighs 6lbs 8ozs and is  19 1/2 inches long. At 3 months old, he is the size of a newborn!! He is getting excellent reports from all his doctors.

This is so true!
 

Boys, Boys, Boys

Okay, maybe the title of this blog should be boys, boys, boys plus one girl! That is how it is in our family between my brothers and I there are 7 boys and 1 girl!
Anytime we are together it is crazy to say the least. When we were in Shreveport over Thanksgiving we tried to spoil them as much as possible! One day we went to the park, which was so beautiful!

Yes, my husband is at times the biggest kid of them all!

 

Owen is a true monkey and daredevil. He gave me several heart attacks on this day!

We went for ice cream after the park, take note: The nice people at Baskin Robbins have my motto on the wall!

 

 

We also took a trip down to Santa Land at Bass pro! It was kinds crazy but lots of fun!

They checked out the alligator

Did some wishful thinking

Played some duck hunting

and saw Santa!

How, those people got all 4 looking and smiling is amazing to me.

 

 

This is Chase, nephew #6 he celebrated James Henry's birthday with us and he is a little stinker and oh so cute!