He's Baaaaacck!

Guess who showed up at our house this morning?

Ferrell, our Elf!  We were so excited to see him!  And he brought us breakfast all the way from the North Pole!  Ava says she knows the donuts are from Santa because there is a Santa stamp on the top of the jar.

The jar that the snow covered donuts were in was even still cold from the Arctic weather!  Ferrell also brought a note for Ava.  He really needs to work on his use of capital letters.

He even made our breakfast festive by decorating the table for us.  Christmas prints everywhere!!  

Our sweet elf even brought Ava some treats.  She got a Christmas coloring book, Christmas pencils, Christmas stamps, and a Christmas craft kit.

And yes, he also brought her some warm, cozy Christmas socks to keep her feet nice and warm.

Ava really enjoyed the snow covered donuts.  She said they were really delicious.

Then, it was time to read the book Ferrell brought with him again this year.

Such a Daddy's girl.  Daddy's pretty smitten with his baby girl too.

We are almost all ready for Christmas around here!  The tree is up...

the stocking are hung (even though I can't seem to get them to hang straight)...

and I have Ava's Christmas pajamas all wrapped up and ready for her to open on Christmas Eve.

I also have our Advent activity ready to go.  I took all the Christmas books that I had as a child and then checked out quite a few good ones from the library.  I wrapped them all up in fun character holiday wrapping paper from the Dollar Tree.  We always read a book to Ava at bedtime each night so now she will get to choose a book from the stack, open it up, and that will be the book we will read that night.  She can count how many books are left to know how many more days there are until Christmas.

Tis the season to be jolly!  We're so excited!  Let the countdown begin!