The greatest gifts in life are usually free not everything has to be over the top and cost an arm and a leg .take time to smell the flowers and enjoy the little things ,for my boys it's Arts and crafts

Sadly my oldest son was very sick for 2 days so Elfie stayed in his room and refused to move till he was better so sadly no Elfie day 20 or 21. So since poor Haven was so sick and we had to sanitize everything

By hiding in a new spot each morning around the house, the scout elf plays an ongoing game of hide and seek with the family. The Elf on the Shelf explains that scout elves get their magic by being named

By hiding in a new spot each morning around the house, the scout elf plays an ongoing game of hide and seek with the family. The Elf on the Shelfexplains that scout elves get their magic by being named

By hiding in a new spot each morning around the house, the scout elf plays an ongoing game of hide and seek with the family. The Elf on the Shelfexplains that scout elves get their magic by being named

Earlier this year and last (2017-2018) we showed you our efforts to build a small friendship community garden and it's been doing good not as well as local community gardens but we're still learning and

By hiding in a new spot each morning around the house, the scout elf plays an ongoing game of hide and seek with the family. The Elf on the Shelf explains that scout elves get their magic by being named

By hiding in a new spot each morning around the house, the scout elf plays an ongoing game of hide and seek with the family. The Elf on the Shelf explains that scout elves get their magic by being named

By hiding in a new spot each morning around the house, the scout elf plays an ongoing game of hide and seek with the family. The Elf on the Shelf explains that scout elves get their magic by being named

Elfie had a rough day and had to take a nap out of reach of the children the tissue box was the perfect place apparently.

Elfie hunny you tried I'll give you e for effort but looks more like your having a bath in dirty dishes . 

Elfie did a bit of a change as our shoes were still wet from being out visiting family and friends and work so he used some educational puzzles instead .your so resourceful Elfie and thank you for thinking

Elfie did a bit of a reversal this year and instead we wrote an extra letter to santa and asked for a special gift for people to be extra cheerful and help out the less fortunate in their own communities.

Day 10 Poor Elfie had an epic fail when he tried to do a zipline from the ceiling construction paper chain to the Christmas tree

Elfie in the laundry room what a good helper

Elfie sitting in the mantel with the stockings he even added one for himself

Elfie takes a piece of candy from the advent calendar ! Oh Elfie you were only supposed to take one but we understand it's chocolate so we're not mad we'll get a new one.

Oh Elfie Elfie decided that he was starving and had to eat all the cheese in the house 😥😥

Elfie left a message to the boys out of candy