Playing Cards

Well my prank was a big success! The boys woke up and couldn't get dressed because I had swapped their clothes! I put all of C's clothes in T's closet and moved T's clothes to C's closet. Then I hid in T's closet to see his reaction. It was hilarious! What a great prank. Thanks Holiday Mom for moving all the clothes back to their correct location while the boys were at school.

It's hard to believe it's only 2 weeks until Christmas! I'm so excited! I noticed my Holiday Family has put up their second Christmas tree in the back room of their house. It's such a great tree. Just full of all sorts of special ornaments that C & T have made at school or ornaments that just have special meaning. I was very happy to see that they put the ornaments I have given to the boys each year on this special tree. It really made me smile.

Tonight we decided to take it easy. I brought some card games from The Pole for my Holiday Family, so we decided to give them a try. They are really very fun games. I hope my Holiday Family can use them during family game night sometime.

It's Christmas in July!

Well, it's Christmas in July and I requested special permission from the Jolly Guy to return to my family in Ohio for a check up on the boys.  And he agreed!  So, off I went for a night to see my favorite boys... C & T!  My how they have grown just since Christmas last year!  C's room looks very different.  But I like his new bed!

I thought I would put up some decorations to really make it feel like Christmas, but I couldn't find the tree and wreaths and garland and ornaments.  So, I rummaged around the house and finally found something I could use!  Birthday streamers!!  I remembered seeing streamers last year when I visited for Christmas and thank goodness Holiday Mom didn't get rid of them!  I used the help of my pal Rudy (he stays with the family all year long) and we really made it look nice.  We made a Christmas tree with decorations and hung garland from the stair railing.  We decorated the mirror in the dining room and we even found some Christmas lights and decorated the bathroom mirror.  I left a special message on the bathroom mirror so my Holiday family would know I had stopped by.  I sure do miss them a lot during the year. 

I'm going to go enjoy a cup of hot cocoa with Rudy.  He's making me a cup right now with lots of marshmallows.  Yum!!  Then I'll head back to the Pole to give my report to the Jolly Guy.  Be good C & T ... I'll see you again in December!

Setting up the Christmas trees

I woke up tonight to find another Christmas card from some of my elf friends.  Jingle-Jangle, Merry and Bertie are elves visiting a family in the UK for the holiday season.  I just loved their card... it was so cute.  I decided to help my holiday family decorate their upstairs tonight.  I put up the little Christmas trees in the kid's rooms. 

And Rudy and I even convinced Cooper to help us get the trees upstairs.

He carried me on his back while I held onto the trees to drag them up.  We made sure we gave him a treat for his help.  And they sure looked good when they were set up.  (you can't see it in the pictures Rudy took with holiday Mom's camera... but there are color changing lights on the tips of the branches.  It's so cool.)

Ready for the Jolly Guy's arrival soon!

Decorating the tree!

I noticed that my host family has set their Christmas tree up but they have not yet decorated it.  I decided I would do them a favor and help them decorate it!  I think I did a pretty good job, but tell me what you think!

I had so much fun!  I don't think they will be keeping my decorations though since they'll probably need these underwear at some point!  Tonight I think I'm going to just hang out with the gang and play some games.  I really wish the boys I'm visiting would write to me.  They can just click on the word "comments" right down below this post and they can send me a message.  I really hope to hear from you guys!