Santa and His Elves

This year we were quite late getting around to the business of seeing Santa. I'm going to come clean  and confess that we finally made the trek to see Santa on the 22nd. Our favorite elf, Zippy, came to see us at about that time as well, after we remembered to try out our new Santa Stop ornament from Hallmark (thanks, Grammie!). Zippy appeared immediately after we utilized our magical lantern. 

Zippy's usual hijinks ensued. 

Finding Zippy in his many different hiding places became a morning ritual...

 

...along with cleaning up his mischief. 

We were sad to say goodbye to Zippy again this year, but will welcome him back again next December.