The McMahon Family

Merry 2015 Christmas

We started our Christmas celebrations with Shannon’s side on Christmas Eve. It was fun playing the Saran Wrap game!

A little beer pong with the cousins.

Then Christmas morning arrived. The boys had so much anticipation this year for the big day. 🙂

Christmas morning. Ready to go!

His iPod. 🙂

The X Wing Fighter

And another Hot Wheels track. Thank you, God, we have a playroom!

My favorite shot from the selfie stick. Isn’t he adorable?!

My favorite man and me. 🙂

Check out a walkthrough of all our great Christmas festivities here!

Steve

For Christmas last year, Nicki got me the Elf on the Shelf. I had wanted one but couldn’t justify paying that price. But since it was a gift, we enjoyed it thoroughly!

Since we never did Santa with the boys, I thought it might be fun to do the elf with them. We didn’t use it as he reports back to Santa, but more as a search and find game. We read the book together and they named him Steve. We did agree that they would try to find him each day, but they couldn’t touch him, or he would lose his magic and couldn’t play the game. Of course, after the first day, Patrick reported that Mac touched Steve ‘to see what would happen.’ They were rather upset when Steve didn’t return for a few days. Once he got some magic back and returned, they really got into it and followed all the rules of the game.

It was so much fun to see both boys get into it. Even Mac had fun finding him and seeing what he was up to each day. I did not go over the top as some do, but it was fun to get a little creative! I forgot to take pictures some days, but here’s a look at what we came up with over all.