Santa

At the beginning of December we headed out to the Festival of Trees... our favorite place to go and see Santa. He was to arrive at 5pm so we had an hour to check out the trees. I thought this one was pretty clever...

We arrived at Santa's workshop 5 minutes before Santa was to arrive... and told the kiddos to speak slowly and loudly so that Santa could hear. Walker wanted to have a "trial run" with Daddy...

We waited and waited and Santa didn't show up... we had to leave at 5:30 for Ainsley's hair appointment so to say the least we were all disappointed and full of crabbiness. It was starting to snow and Ainsley was certain that Santa was delayed because of the snow. We got home and Ainsley sat down and wrote her letter to Santa right away...

complete with photos so Santa knew exactly what she wanted...

Walker still upset with a missed Santa visit wrote his the next day...

I love the "mostly been good" part...

I love how he wanted to have his envelope look just like Ainsley's...

To the post office we went...

And a surprise came a week or so later...

To say he was excited and surprised is an understatement... see those glistening eyes... he started to read his letter and started to cry... saying he was just so happy! Ainsley had a school function and Little Bug could hardly wait until she got home so that she could open her letter too...

Fun times... hard to believe tomorrow Santa will make his big voyage. Super excited kiddos at our house... you know the bouncing off the walls kind of excitement!