12 Days of Christmas Adventure - Day 2

This morning, while waiting for the bus, Cannon happened upon Tom leaving for work and innocently asked...."Did you get anything at your door last night?"

ummmmm.......surprise and mystery has now been 100% kyboshed!  Good thing our neighbors are sweet enough to let our kids follow through with the original plan.  I hope that they will improve on their sneakiness through the years.

We brought them a finding nemo puzzle that had a turtle and a dove chocolate bar....all neighbors are playing the game and no one was "caught" tonight.  hehehehe - such good sports!

The Twelve Days of Christmas Adventure: Day 1

The twelve days of Christmas could start today (if you want it to end on Christmas Eve) or tomorrow (if you want it to end Christmas Day)....

we choose today.
Our victims:  two neighbors
The plan: ding-dong ditch a gift for each day of the twelve days of Christmas
The first gift - an ornament for your Christmas Tree

The first neighbor has about 18 (ok 4) dogs....needless to say, as the boys got closer to the house the dogs went crazy and the family swung the door open and Andrew shyly said...."um, this was supposed to be a surprise"...lol, ok, so they know who we are at day one - not optimal...but still fun.

The second neighbor....this time the kids had an elaborate plan - they mapped out how it would work, divided the labor and had a lookout!  Andrew laid in the grass and called the neighbors dog over - she knows us, so no barking. :)  Cali crept up to the door and left the gift and card.  She went and laid in the lookout spot with Andrew.  Colton then crept up, rang the bell and ran around the corner of the house.  The neighbor opened the door, saw the gift, looked around, picked it up and went inside!  SUCCESS!

Check us out for day two of the Barnard's Twelve Days of Christmas Adventure!

Cannon on the Front Page of the Newspaper.

Cannon had fun playing hopscotch at the new Appleby school.  See the cute crocks?  Later that day he called me to come and bring him new shoes...he had gotten a blister.  Darn crocks!  Hope he enjoys hop scotch cuz that's all the new "playground" has.  Hopefully not forever!