Jingle's 1st week

Oh Jingle...we are SO HAPPY she is back!  Jingle is our family elf at Christmas time that makes her way to us during the day time and flies home to Santa at night while the kids are sleeping.  Cade seems to be VERY NICE knowing Jingle is watching and reporting to Santa.  Can I get a "what what!"?  Hahaha!  I am trying to think of how to have Jingle stay around around year!  So, the fun part is watching where Jingle appears each morning.  Some days she can be naughty, and some days she is nice.  Caelin loves to find her to, but has not quite grasp the fact that you cannot touch Jingle.  This makes Cade very angry, but I think we are all getting the hang of it.  Here is Jingle's first week in review.

Another new fun daily activity we started this year is our Advent calendar!  We bought this new addition at our family reunion in New Braunsfels this past summer.  Cade helped me put it all together and it has some fun family activity each night.  Caelin still thinks the hanging decorations are there for her to swing on, so we are working on that, but we do get a kick out of how proud she is each time they move when she slaps them.  Yesterday we made snowflakes and Cade decided to hang them in his room.  Today we are reading the story of Jesus' birth.  It is just another way for me to sneak in about 15-30 minutes of family fun daily.