Buddy's Christmas break started last Thursday and things aren't panning out quite like I expected them to. Like a good mother, I ordered some educational crafts for Buddy to do over his 3 week vacation. Let's just say they weren't cheap and I was expecting him to take most of the week creating each of the 3 projects I purchased. There was a wind up flashlight to build.....
A light-up speaker.....
And the coolest of all, a laser....
Yeah, that's my hand with a laser show on it. As you can tell it didn't take 3 weeks....more like 3 hours, on Thursday night, so it wasn't even technically a vacation day!
Then there was our traditional elf pranking.....
The kids did this prank for an 8 year old boy that we're friends with his mom. They completely filled the van with balloons and placed the elf in one of the balloons with help me written on it. The van was then gift wrapped with a note saying that it was from Scout (the name of the elf's) enemies. Last year this kid loved our prank, this year, not sure if it was the enemy part or what....but he was pretty afraid and refused to go into the van with the balloons until his parents pushed him in! At least we got to prank Buddy's friend....
Thankfully, she was a super sport about the complete room wrap job we did! Buddy of course made sure to remind me to not forget him in the pranking.....he reminds me every year, does this kid not know me at all.....This was his Christmas surprise....
That's stars and snowflakes above his bed with balloons blocking his exit. Thank goodness there was no emergency last night impeding his exit! Friday, I took the boy surfing.....it was super windy, so after 15 minutes of hard paddling to just stay in one spot, we decided to call it quits. Thankfully, the boys had a good reprieve...
Or at least, our family was given a "sparkling" new year gift while we were at the beach! Once again, yes, he drank the whole thing, the little stinker!
Lastly, in our best laid plans that didn't pan out, my sister was supposed to come visit us for Christmas. So we had to improvise a visit. We sure know how to show people a good time. We took the crew sledding....
Built a snowman with them....they weren't very helpful, truth be told....
Then we had a lovely Christmas Eve dinner with them....there was a little fight over the turkey leg, but Buddy ended up winning out....
This morning, being Christmas and all, we treated them with a climb up the coconut tree to get some fresh coconuts.....
Donna, I'm sure, thought is was the best coconut EVER...at least I assume she would if she WERE ACTUALLY HERE! Not sure where else our vacation will lead us, but I think we have 20 more days left to figure it out.....I'm hopeful we will figure something out by then! So all in all a super fantastic, counting down the days, day!
