awww, goodbye stanley

so, how do you say goodbye to your little elf-friend when christmas is over?  

thank goodness for pinterest.  final answer.

here is how we said goodbye to stanley.  once we got home from sallisaw, we "found this letter along with stanley in one of our bags".  you get my drift. 

both girls actually sat while i read the entire letter.  

oh, how they love stanley!  these two pics are just precious to me!  i'm so glad that even sweet E sort-of got the gist.  

he played store with the girls for a bit.  

and daddy said his goodbye's, too.  (he's gonna straight-up kill me for posting this!) 

as i provide a walk down memory lane, 

i'll leave you with an appropriate song from boyz ii men.

and i'll take with me the memories to be my sunshine after the rain…

(planking.  my personal favorite.)

(stolen crayons and paper.)

(suspended by a wrapping paper tube.)

(hijacked panties.)

(hanging out with baby jesus.)

 (mad drawing skills.)  

((no, i'm NOT the talented one in the family.))

(somehow beat us to sallisaw.)

 (hangin' with gran's nutcrackers.)

 (loving on the nutcracker snow globe.)

 (sneaking m&m's)

it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday. 

see you next christmas, stanley!  we triple-heart you!!!