Our Christmas Elf

Ok, so I wasn't so sure about this whole Elf on the Shelf thing. Honestly, I always thought they were a little creepy. But after my mom bought us one, and I looked around online at different ideas, I thought about it a little more and figured the boys would really get a kick out of it. For those who don't know what it is, the Elf on the Shelf is a special scout elf sent from the North Pole to help Santa Claus manage his naughty and nice lists. When a family adopts an elf and gives it a name, the elf receives its Christmas magic and can fly to the North Pole each night to tell Santa Claus about all of the day's adventures. Each morning, the elf returns to its family and perches in a different place to watch the fun. Kids love to wake up and race around the house looking for their elf each morning.

There are two simple rules that every child knows when it comes to having an elf. First, an elf cannot be touched; (Though in our family, adults are a allowed to touch her) Christmas magic is very fragile and if an elf is touched it may lose that magic and be unable to fly back to the North Pole. Second, an elf cannot speak or move while anyone in the house is awake! An elf's job is to watch and listen.

The boys named her "Candy." Which was very fitting cause the first thing she did when she came to us, is get into the Halloween candy. Haha!

I tried to take pictures each time she got into mischief, but I forgot a couple of nights. 

She TP'd the bathroom! What a mess!

She drew on the boys' pictures one night.

Took a nap in Travin's diaper

A "bubble" bath in marshmallows

She started to color a picture.

The other toys held her hostage!

She wanted a hug from our magnet
monkey.

Hiding in a plant

Snow angels in flour

She had a little accident. Pooping chocolate chips

She wanted to wear Chase's rudolph hat he made in school.

Decided she needed clothes one night. She made herself a skirt and some boots.

She missed her friend Frosty, so she made a picture out of him from our fridge.

She put up streamers to the boys' room one night. They loved this one!

She added icicles to our tree.

Last night. Saying goodbye. She wrote the boys a letter and gave them a coloring sheet along with some candy canes filled with skittles.