Christmas Fail...

My ward is doing this secret Santa thing for Christmas where we get another house and for the 25 days (or however long we're in town) we can do little things for another house. So my apartment got a house and we (meaning I) wanted to do something funny. So we brain-stormed the funny 12 Days of Christmas. For example, day 1 we did a cd of Partridge Family songs and a pear and a cut out Christmas tree. Pretty funny I thought.

Day 2 we did 2 bars of dove soap with a drawing of a turtle on each. (Dove soap is really strongly scented just FYI).

For Day 3, we did 3 slices of French Toast with a note saying (in French) that the hens never had a chance to hatch.

Now for my fail. On Day 4 we were supposed to each call one of the guys in the house and make bird noises (chirp chirp, tweet tweet, etc). Well, I wrote the guy's number down wrong, so I called some man all day who was very angry that he was getting weird prank phone calls. It was really embarrassing. (My friends, whose phones I used, got angry phone calls from some man demanding explanations.) So, I called him back and left a message explaining what it was I was doing, and I think he'd have to get over it. I mean, it is kind of funny, don't you think?

Fail #2: For Day 5, (5 rolls of toilet paper wrapped in gold ribbon) we totally got caught. It doesn't help that 1 of the roommates knows everyone, so it's hard for her to do covert-ops. So they were waiting for us. One of the guys was just outside walking around. Then he stood by his car. Once he got in his car and drove away, we went up to the door to drop off the stuff (they live upstairs which is really inconvenient) and the people in the house screamed "caught you red handed" so we bolted. But stupid me, I still had one roll of toilet paper in my hand. So we threw it at their door as they exclaimed, "that's where the 5th one is" and then ran home. Well, remember the guy in the car, well he was driving around in circles waiting for us, and followed us back to the apartment (in his car while we were running). We booked it into different apartments - yeah, I totally broke into someone's house and ruined a date night (SORRY!), but he just waited for us to come out. One of my roommates left too early and he caught her, so the jig was up.

What fun is it now? Couldn't they have waited until like day 10 to try to see who it was? Kinda lame...

Anyway, in case you want to know what else we have planned for the 12 days here it goes:
6 rubber chickens that "poop" out an egg (kind of pricey so we're doing 1 with some eggs)
7 rubber duckies in 7 bowls of water
8 packages of hot chocolate with a note saying they were brown cows
9 stickers of girls (we wanted to do Disney princesses, or some kind of girly 'action-figure' but they were expense or non-existent in the stores we went to
10 action figures on strings tied to the stairs so that they're leaping (action figures are really cheap!)
11 toy flutes (party favor-esque)
12 --we're still working out this one. We're thinking marshmallow drums. We'd like to do drumsticks, but again a little pricey.

Merry Christmas!