Some Elf Antics

My friend, ShaRhonda at The 4 Crow's, is having a link up party for Elf on a Shelf until Christmas Eve.  So, I am linking up to her blog today and sharing some of the silly-ness our elf, Dan, has been getting into. 

Dan found the kid's camera and went around the house taking pictures.

We found Dan hanging out in Jack's tree.

Dan needed to do some reading.

Dan got a little hungry one night and got into the gum drops.

Doing some climbing...

close up of Dan climbing

Dan decided to hang out in the chandelier

Dan wrote a letter to the kids telling them to have a great day (how sweet of him, lol)

Dan got into a wrestling match with John Cena...Looks like Dan used some of his elf magic and managed to get Cena in a headlock.

The other wrestlers caught wind of what Dan did to John Cena and tied Dan up to the Charlie Brown tree...something tells me that Dan will not mess with anymore wrestlers, lol

Dan also got into some silly-ness last year.  Here are some of those pictures:
Dan wrapped himself in the kids countdown chain:

Dan tried to brush his teeth:

Dan toilet papered the kids bathroom:

Dan traveled with us during Christmas.  While we stayed the night at my grandmother's house, Dan got into her undergarments drawer and hung them from the tree.

Head over to ShaRhonda's blog and see some more elf mischievousness.  I will share more of Dan the elf's antics between now and Christmas (something tells me he has much more in the works, lol)

Family Pictures

A few weeks ago, we had some family pictures taken by a sweet friend of the family who has been taking our family pictures for over 3 years now.  She is a very talented young lady and we are certainly going to miss her when she leaves for college.
I wanted to share a few of the pictures she took for us.  Some of the pictures she took will be making an appearance on our Christmas card this year :)

Here are the pictures:

A few weeks ago, my mom, Madeline and I traveled to my grandmother's to spend the weekend with her and honor her on her 75th birthday.  (Jack had basketball try-outs so he and J were not able to go with us)

For my grandmother's birthday our family celebrated all weekend.  My aunt and uncle cooked a big meal on Friday evening and we all gathered at their house to eat and hang out by the fire pit.  It was so good to all spend time together and even my mamaw Beth joined us and I loved spending time with her.  The next morning we all got ready for a day full of fun.  We surprised my grandmother with a limo which arrived at her house.  The limo took us to a photographers studio where we had family pictures made.  (We had group pictures, pictures of my grandmother with her children, pictures of my grandmother with her grandchildren, we also did a generational picture of my grandmother, my mom, me and Madeline - 4 generations, and a picture of my grandmother by herself so she could send it to her family in Italy) The pictures turned out so good!  From there we loaded back into the limo and took a little tour of the downtown area and then headed to a lovely restaurant where we all stuffed ourselves till we hurt, lol.  Luckily we were able to load back into the limo and let the driver take us back to my grandmothers house ;)  We all had so much fun and I know my grandmother loved having her family with her to celebrate her big day.  Madeline's favorite part was riding in  the limo-of course it was, she is a princess hehe ;)

Below are some pictures I took of our adventures:

Me and Madeline waiting on the limo to arrive to take us to our pictures:

another picture of me and my little princess:

My mom (meme) and Madeline:

My aunt Maura and me:

Madeline, Meme, and my cousin Michael getting into the limo:

My cousin J.Cole and my grandmother:

My grandmother, Madeline, and Meme ready for the ride in the limo:

Just me:

Toasting (with Mt. Dew):

My precious grandmother and me: