Michael 2015

We had so much fun with our elf Michael this year.

From the time he arrived on Black Friday, to when we finally said good-bye well after Christmas, Michael was a very loved elf.

The night before he arrived, Daniel left him a picture in the wreath (remembering that he arrived there last year). 

Look what he left in return!

That night they both left him something. 

Daniel's picture is on the left.
Anabella's note: "Dear Michael you are so nice and I love you Michael Love Anabella"

Daniel pulled out this pumpkin he made back in October to leave him the next night. ha!

Anabella would ask me sometimes if Michael was real. "He has a fake face," she'd say. I told her you have to believe in him; and if you believe in him, then he's real. It's what I remember my mom always telling me when I asked about Santa (even when I was way old enough to know for sure that he wasn't "real"). One afternoon (while Michael was on top of the microwave-as pictured here), she got on the barstool and pulled it over so she could see him and I heard her say, "Michael, I know you have a fake face, but I believe in you so I know you are real." 

One night Michael got in big trouble because he pulled beads off the tree. 

Anabella wrote him a note that evening. Here's what she wrote: "Love Anabella, Dear Michael, where you see the yellow thing is how nice you are. If you ever make a mess again I will not give you a note or picture." 

That night, November 30th, Michael wrote an apology note and left an advent calendar to start December. 

Uh oh, another mess!

Michael!!! 

He made a mess, and she made him an ornament! 

Yum, Michael liked this! 

One day Michael left them both Elf on the Shelf lip balm.

Michael! Those sprinkles were hard to clean up. Anabella left you a cookie already. It's not ok for you to help yourself! 

Anabella got Michael something at her holiday gift shop. This is her note; also a "thank you" for the lip balm. 

This was a gift from Michael- Elf on the Shelf band aids. 

Another gift- Santa Paws DVD.

This was Michael's thank you. 
She said that even though the movie was sad, thank you, she liked it. 

Oh Michael, not another mess!! 

The night before we left for NYC....

I must have forgotten some pictures of these two "Michael's friends" he would play with sometimes at night. The P.S. to his note- can may friends come, too?! Of course! 

What'dya know, there he was! In NYC at the hotel.
In his PJs. I am missing a ton of pictures- like the night he showed up in PJs! 

According to the book, Michael should have returned to the North Pole on Christmas Eve, but Anabella wrote him a note asking him to stay a few days longer, and of course, he obliged.

Opening the presents he left them.

Elf poopers!

Until next year.....we'll be thinking of you, Michael!