Weekending into December!

Happy December!  We had a busy weekend to kick off the Christmas season!  Lots of fun (and not so fun) memories!  The not-so-fun?  My Escape had to go to the shop for a few repairs that I've been trying to avoid - but then last week when I started my car after arriving back to transit station and it stalled out, and then when restarted, was chugging and violently shaking, I decided I should probably get it figured out.  Talk about an embarrassing drive home that night!  But, it appears to have been corrected to the tune of a lot of money that is now not available for Christmas presents!  So it goes.  I'm relieved it's running better now and I will totally cry the day I have to rid myself of this Escape (which Jay keeps bugging me to do!)

Anyway, on to the fun stuff!

New wreath I made for the front door:

I'm loving it!  And the best part?  I got all the supplies from the Dollar store!!  It can stay up through January and maybe even February.  Sweet!

Our Elf on the Shelf "Smurf Elf" arrived on Saturday morning, bringing a little gift for Ms. Ella.  She was super excited, so cute!

It was Home Depot project Saturday, so Ella made a holiday picture frame - and impressed us even using the screwdriver this time!

I spent a little time working on this scarf for Sunday school teacher gifts:

And, these gifts for preschool teachers:

Where would I come up with this stuff if Pinterest wasn't around?!?!  The snowmen are Ghirardelli Peppermint Bark bars, and I found a printable label for the hand sanitizer via Pinterest that I could personalize to add the teacher name!

Saturday night was Dazzle Days in downtown Farmington, so we headed out to enjoy the horse driven carriage rides and tree lighting ceremony.  Note, pictures are not that great because I forgot the real camera!

Standing in line for the carriage ride and a train was going by!

I love this family picture even though it's super low resolution, etc.!

Smurf Elf showed up Sunday morning reading Ella's new favorite Curious George book, which she thought was "so silly!"

And last night Ella sweetly gave Smurf Elf a skirt to wear (and put on at the North Pole, of course!)

Here's Smurf Elf today - "working" which is what Ella says when she's playing on this little laptop!

I think that about sums it up!  Jay has been working on a little homemade sled using recycled wood and I can't wait to finish it so I can share!