Ginger: Day 5

Today Ginger grabbed some friends and watched a movie.  They had so much fun they stayed there all day.

Ginger: Day 4

Today Ginger was enjoying the heat from the lamp.  After a full day of being on the water yesterday, a day of rest and relaxation was in order.

Ginger: Day 3

Today Ginger and her friend Donatello went on a little boat ride.  They decided last night to go fishing in the sink for some jelly beans.  It's always fun to bring a friend along with you.

On a side note we read the Elf on the Shelf book last night and took a picture to commemorate the occasion
 Here is the "good" one

Here is a funny one.  Gotta love these kids

 

Ginger: Day 2

Today Ginger was a naughty elf.  She decided to treat herself to some of the kids halloween candy. 
 Nathan has come in to wake me up every morning and relays to me what Ginger has done.

Ginger: Day 1 Our Elf on the Shelf

It's that time of year again.  The Elf on the Shelf is back.  For the next 24 days your news feeds are going to be full of different Elf on the shelf ideas.  Like most I have been searching for creative ideas on Pinterest (http://www.pinterest.com/tenillewilson/christmas/) is my pinterest page with some great ideas.

The one thing I really like about Ginger our Elf is how creative the kids get.  They made her an apartment in one of our shelves.  She has it pretty good in there.

 Our suitcase the kids painted last year, it was still packed with last years clothes and goodies

 Yes that is a picture of the kids Nathan is in there beside Clayton and on Faith's lap.  He's kind of slipping that's why you can't see him well. 

Some of the pictures the girls drew for Ginger.

 Here is Ginger herself.  Payton made an origami piano.  Ginger thought she would try it out this morning.  The seat didn't quite fit her long legs but it was still great.

Wonder what Ginger is going to get up to tomorrow.  Stay tuned!

Wordless Wednesday

Halloween 2014

Well Halloween was great this year.  Alittle colder then I like but it went well.  Clayton had a bit of a problem with his minecraft head.  It kept moving around so we taped it to the body, next time I think I will come up with a way to wear it more as a hat instead of just sitting on his head if that makes sense.  I like to match the kids pumpkins to their costumes.  It's fun looking at all the pumpkin carvings.  I had a 5th pumpkin but it was rotten the day after I bought it.  So I had to do with a dragon this year :(

 minecraft diamond sword

 Vampire teeth.  I messed up a bit on the bottom but that's o.k

 Minecraft Creeper

 An eyeball.  I just thought it was cool looking.  As I couldn't find a good Miley Cyrus pumpkin carving.

I made the boys costumes out of boxes and then I just glued craft paper on it to make it look blocky. I found some great ideas on Pinterest.

Faith's costume I had to make it less slutty, so she had to wear the white shorts and shirt underneath.  I tried to find nude but just couldn't in her size.  She didn't wear this one to school only because her teacher had a haunted house and she asked the kids to dress up as porcelain dolls. On the actual Halloween night, she wore a sweater and pants under the costume.
Payton's costume I lucked out this year and found it for a reasonable price at Value Village.

Halloween was good this year.  We only had 28 kids, as most people on my street doesn't give out candy.