Saturday, December 6, 2008

Lunch with Santa!

I know, I know, it's been a while since I've posted a new blog. We've had one sick kid after another, and I think the colds are now making another round! So unless Spring comes tomorrow, it might be a while before I have three healthy children all at the same time!

Gamma & Papa came up for the weekend for Dominic's birthday. We had such a good time, despite the snow and Sprout card fiasco. I'll get in to that on my next blog.

Saturday we had such a fun lunch. A local resort here has a lunch with Santa. For $12.95 for adults (the kids are young enough they ate free), we got to have lunch with the big man himself. While the food is average, however very kid friendly (chicken fingers, hot dogs, mac'n cheese) it really is a fun event. They have a characture artist and a guy there doing balloon animals. We had the cutest little characture done of the three kids. When Santa actually "arrives" you hear what sounds like his sleigh and reindeer landing on the roof. I was a little freaked at first, until I realized what it was. It was sooooo cool to see the kids excitment when they realized what was happening.

We attended last year, and this year we didn't make the same rookie mistakes we did last year. Lines got a little long early on last year, so this year, before Bryan even had our table, I took Christina & Dominic and we went and got in line to get our characture. I think he did a really good job, but by the time he finished ours, the line was huge! We did the same thing for lunch too. Everyone was in line for pictures and balloons, so we actually made our way right up with no waiting. Santa is what we need to work on for next year. Once that sleigh lands, I'm going to go up and wait at his chair because by the time he made his entrance, kids were EVERYWHERE waiting! All and all though, it was well worth it. Dominic went up and sat on Santa's lap. Ethan joined him and my big girl Christina stood with her brothers and told Santa what she wanted! No tears from anyone! It truly was a Christmas miracle!

Ok, this is it for tonight. I'm going to do a blog tomorrow about Dominic's big day. I won't leave you waiting though. The card DID NOT make the show. Needless to say, I'm not happy! Fill you in on the rest tomorrow!

Here's some of our favorite pictures from Saturday:



Dominic, Christina & Ethan's characture! Isn't this the cutest!?!


Christina & Gamma drinking their lemonade at lunch.

Christina & Dominic waiting in line to see Santa.

And I saved the best for last (drum roll please):
Dominic, Ethan, Christina & SANTA!!!!!