Christmas Cheer

Meet our family Elf - Lucky! Santa sent him to us this year to keep and eye on the children and report nightly how they are behaving. Each night he returns to the North pole with a report on how the kids did during the day. When he comes back he finds a funny little place to hangout around the house and each morning the kids try to find him. He has made the holiday super fun and kept the kids behaving too.


The boys cub scout pack gathered a huge donation for local homeless kids right before Christmas. We read an article in our local newspaper about some Clark County School District students that are homeless. Some of them only eat at school through the free breakfast and lunch program. Many of them don't have clothes, underwear or coats.
Our pack decided to help and gathered lots of supplies in just a few days. We brought the entire back of my van full of clothes, underwear, hats, gloves, coats and 10 huge bags of food donated by a local union, to Catholic Charities with two days to go till Christmas. I brought some boys along with Jacob and Ryan to drop off what we collected. It was a great experience and I think it impacted the kids to see that other kids really have so much less than we do. On the way home I brought the boys for a treat and look what we found, a wholesale candy store.....Ryan thought Christmas came early...ha ha!