FAMILY

FAMILY
The Landon Family 2012

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Elf on the Shelf

Elf on the Shelf!
Our Elf was sent to us by my sweet Sister-in-Law Jennifer Landon.  After much excited discussion an agreement was made on a name for our sweet elf----James Jimmy John Landon  (Reagan is still upset we didn't thrown in Christmas Tree or Candy Cane).  This has been a fun adventure for our little family each morning.  Rees, are early-riser inevitably finds him each day and then broadcasts it to the world and wakes up the others.  He has hidden on various light fixtures and on shelves, on a wreath, and on windows and in closets.  One day he played with Jacksons legos and built a spacecraft sled that we assumed he used to get back to the North Pole that night. Last night we think he was playing hide and seek with Cookie monster because we found them hiding together this morning.  Our favorite has been when the Elf decided to be naughty (Jackson adamantly defends the elf as just trying to be funny).  The Elf was found hiding on a shelf in the morning holding a marker.  He and the four children had mustaches drawn on there faces!!  Rees in the morning was classic--she ran downstairs and exclaimed "MOM I have a mustache and the elf does too and he's hiding upstairs with a marker!!"  This is going to be a great tradition--  




Sunday, December 16, 2012

Christmas Season in Michigan

The Christmas Season in Michigan

We went to a fun GLOW festival.  The kids made crafts, saw reindeer, ate roasted chestnuts --(not that great), roasted marshmallows, and saw some cool ice sculptures.  We are sad we can't be with family for this holiday season, but gratefully our new friends here in East Lansing have made the transition much better.  Just last night we went to a friends home and sang christmas carols and drank hot chocolate and ate cookies.   What an amazing ward we have been blessed to be a part of, the Lord is always in the details.







 Here are some super fun photos we took after our awesome cousins sent us some fake mustache's
To get the picture we knocked on the neighbors door and said " we 'mustache' you a question---can you take our picture?"  HA HA HA HA.



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