North Pole Breakfast!

Mac Jingles (our elf) arrived from the North Pole last night! ;) This is our first year with an elf and we are very excited! They decided a couple weeks ago what they wanted to name it. Grayson got to pick one name and Ada the other. Ada chose Mac...like mac and cheese, she said! ;) And Grayson decided on Jingles. I think its a great name! ;)
I happened upon a really cute idea to have a special breakfast when the elf arrives, so we decided to give it a try!

 Mac Jingles prepared everything last night and just wrapped it in plastic wrap, so he just had to sneak in the kitchen this morning and pour the milk! ;)

Grady's hat says size 4...have I mentioned he is really a big boy?! But I love every little bit of him! ;)

The kids were thrilled when they came in to find a special breakfast and elf waiting  on them! They were very surprised and waaayy happy about Oreos, donuts, and candy kisses for breakfast! :)

After breakfast they rushed off to watch The Elf's Story!

 

Mac Jingles brought with him special Christmas pj's, an elf snowglobe, a light up necklace, and best of all...a letter from Santa himself! ;)

 

We had snowballs, peppermint cookies, and elf kisses!



The donuts with the candy canes were a cute little idea I saw on Pinterest (of course!) complete with the north pole signs and "snow sprinkles that I found a Target! Perfect! :) 

We veered  a little from the traditional Elf on The Shelf and tried to shift the focus of our elf to remembering Jesus and spreading his love at Christmas! I found a Santa letter that I liked and made my changes and added my touches to make it ours! ;) We did read the book and watch the movie, but put our Santa letters right beside their beds, where we could remember what Christmas was really about! :) So there it is, our North Pole Breakfast 2013! :)

This was definitely a fun way to introduce our elf and we will keep this up for years to come, I think!! :)