Happy was Here!

A Candy Cane Hunt!

Happy invaded the frig!  Guess he was pretty ‘egg-cited’ about Christmas baking!

Happy thought it would be fun to stay up all night and decorate!  Idea via ELF MAGIC!

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He left a note on Mason’s baby picture!  Idea via Design Dazzle!

Happy teepeed the TREE!  Idea via Infarrantly Creative!

We are really going to miss this little fella after Christmas!

xoxoxoxoxo!

 

Merrymaking

mer·ry·mak·ing/ˈmerēˌmākiNG

Noun:  The process of enjoying oneself with others.

 Synonyms: jollification, rejoicing, jamboree, frolic, fun, WOOPEE!

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Wishing you heaps and heaps of MERRYMAKING!!!
xoxoxoxoxo

Crazy

Crazy in love.

Crazy thankful.

xoxoxoxoxox

Cans for Kids!

 

This was our very last 52 SMILES activity! 

Christmas CANS for KIDS!  

We wanted to do something really fun to celebrate the end of our year long project!  This was our version of a mini family food drive.  Santa went door-to-door and passed out candy canes while he collected non-perishable food items.  He had such a blast.  You should have seen the joy on Santa’s face when folks gave him bags of food.  Almost every house we visited donated food!

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52 SMILES FOLKS— My hat goes off to EACH and EVERY ONE of you who participated in this project!  Whether you did 52 or 5 or 500… big kind acts or small kind acts… THANK YOU. YOU are making a difference.  Thank you for sharing your love and kindness with our world.  I would love to hear about your favorite projects!!  Please email photos or stories of your favorite kindness activities from this last year.  I am forever inspired by YOU!

52 SMILES!

xoxoxoxoxo!

 

Seven Santas

1.  Santa Craft idea via Kaboose 

2.  Santie Treats!  Santa Grahams idea via Pillsbury

3.  Santa Bingo!

4.  Favorite Santa Book!  So glad my dear friend at Love and Lollipops reminded me of this one on her CHRISTMAS BITS and BOBS post!  She has some terrific Santa links– You have got to go to take a trip to PNP if you havn’t been yet!

5.  Fancy Santa Hot Cocoa!

6.  Santa Sweeties

7.  Santa Paper Dolls

xoxoxoxoxo!

 

The Incredible Shrinking Santa

xoxoxoxoxoxo!

Surprise Package

Happy brought the kiddos a SURPRISE package from the North Pole!

CHARLIE-BROWN-CHRISTMAS-IN-A-BOX straight from Peppermint Lane!

Someone was pretty excited about reading his new book!

We had our annual Charlie Brown movie & snow-cones earlier this evening.  Their joy and enthusiasm is my favorite gift of the season!

Hope your days are overflowing with all the ALL the simple joys of CHRISMTAS!

xoxoxoxo!

 

A Santa kinda day.

Today was the perfect day for

gingerbread gazing

rosy cheeks

cookies

and

 SANTA!

xoxxoxoxo!