Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve gets its own post because it was fabulous!!  

Working on their rocket...

The boys were fascinated by the turkey but also grossed out by the smell and feel so they got skewers and homemade nose plugs...hahaha...

After we got the turkey in the oven we headed to the train station parking lot to launch our rocket!  I drove the rocket over while the boys and Park rode their bikes.  By the way, it's 73 degrees on Christmas Eve...

Then we played Pie Face!!!  

I made a turkey dinner and I was SO happy because it turned out PERFECT!  I come from a home with amazing cooks (my mom and my grandma) and so have been spoiled and have a high bar set for flavorful home made gravy, lumpless potatoes, and moist turkey.  WELL...I NAILED IT!  My gravy was to die for...

And the turkey, Parker said, was the best he's ever had...

Nothing fancy but it was yummy...

Then it was time to open our pjs and Christmas ornaments from Grandma and Grandpa Morrill!  

Then we did our Secret Santa gift exchange!  This was our first year doing this and it was so awesome we will for sure do it next year.  12 days before Christmas we drew names and then did secret acts of service each day for our person.  Then we each used our own money to get a gift for our person then we revealed who had who on Christmas Eve.

Tyce had daddy and got him a shirt...

Jackson had me and he got me this super cute hair tie bracelet that I really wanted.  He was beyond excited to give it to me...

Josh had Jackson and he was so thoughtful, I took him shopping and he was so cute thinking about exactly what Jack would like...he got him a stickbot, candy bar, and football thing...

Parker had Josh and got him redskins pajama bottoms which he was beyond thrilled about...

I had Tyce and got him binoculars which he had wanted so bad...

Josh showing off his new pjs...

It was so fun to have the boys think of someone else besides themselves at Christmas time and to see them quietly serve each other.  Definitely a tradition to keep!

Then we got cookies, fudge, carrots, and milk set our for Santa and his reindeer...

The boys all slept together and talked for a while then finally crashed...

Cameron the Elf

Cameron the Elf returned to us again this year!  The boys seriously get more excited about the elf than they do about Santa Claus!  He got into quite a bit of mischief for the few weeks he was here...

This was the first day, he spilled the crayons and left them a message...

Got attacked by toys...

Hanging out on the light eating a sucker...

Took a bubble bath in marshmallows...

Made a house of DVDs for him and some Christmas ornaments...

Made of trail of cereal ALL over the main level and then they found him behind the couch...

Drew himself on the mirror...

Wrapped the boys' backpacks!

Hid in the Lucky Charms box pretending to the leprechaun...

Made a mess with ketchup...

Drank red milk...

Hid under the coffee table...

Got tangled in the fan which was turned on low so he was spinning all around...

Played pirates...

Got tangled in some lights...

He made an awesome zip line taking him down the stairs...

The boys friend Brandon came over and accidently pulled him down off his zip line and he crashed on the floor.  The boys were SO worried that a) he was hurt and b) he would leave (legend goes that if you touch the elf he will leave and never come back).  Tyce wrote this note...

Thankfully he was STILL here in the morning but was pretty banged up so he was resting and getting some medical treatment...

Cameron leaves Christmas Eve with Santa so he left us a gift (Pie Face)...

We're all pretty sad to see Cameron go but look forward to next December when he will come back to wreak havoc on our house all over again!!!