Elf on the Shelf

This is the first year we have started "The Elf On The Shelf" with the boys. 

If you are not familiar with it, the general idea is the Elf on the Shelf is Santa's helper that is sent to your home around the beginning of December. You read the Elf on the Shelf book and the family then names the elf, which the boys named ours, "Elfie". He watches the kids and flies back to the North Pole every night to tell Santa if they are naughty or nice. In the morning, the boys have fun finding where he is hiding and what the Elf may have gotten himself into.
The Elf is not supposed to be touched or else he will lose his magic.

When you have kids in the house there is such excitement this time of the year. It is really quite contagious and we all really got into it with them.

We have an elf and I LOVE this new family tradition!!!

Our 2012 Family Christmas Card

* Family Fun and Photos at Sea World *

This year we decided to crop our own family pictures for our christmas card. With our busy schedule and Robert working out of town these past few weeks we could not make our days work with the photographer.

We spent a whole day at Sea World for their christmas celebration and the boys saw these neat trees wrapped in colorful lights and ran straight to them, so I decided to grab my camera and take some pictures.

- the picture of Robert and me was taken infront of our fireplace

-the picture on the back of the card was taken right before the boys were going to bed

 

Every year I seem to have this great image of what our family picture/s will look like and every year our pictures come out to be something way different but always a whole lot better.

A picture for Maga & Papo

This year my sister and I decided to have the grandkids give

their grandma (maga) and grandpa (papo) 
a picture of them for Christmas.

 

After several takes I was finally able to get a cute pose of them.

 

 

Diego ~ Karlita ~ Joaquin