Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

Yesterday around 5:00 pm, Jason told me and the kids to get ready and be ready to go by 6:30 pm. We kept asking him why and he just wouldn't tell us. I am not one that likes surprises very much and kept asking questions about what I should expect... "Do we need to wear coats?", "Do we need to bring blankets?", "Do I need to bring a camera?" etc... I was trying to figure out where we were going and what we were doing but he really wouldn't say much. Well, at 6:30 we hopped in the car and started driving. I asked him how far we were going and he told me, "About 3.7 miles." That was probably the most information I got out of him with all my questioning. Anyway, about 5 minutes later (holiday traffic) we turn into the Walmart parking lot. Wow, Jason... Fun... Thanks... I mean, what do you say to that?

Well, actually 'Vixen' the Coke truck was there. If you don't know what Vixen is, join the club. Vixen is one of a small amount of Coke trucks that is decked out in lights and a huge picture of Santa on the side.

However, when we first got there, the lights weren't on. As we got closer we noticed that there was a large chair and some Christmas trees with a camera set up for pictures with Santa. Santa had not yet made his appearance and Nevaeh FREAKED out when we told her that he was going to be there. And I mean freaked out in a bad way. I'm still waiting for the blood to return to my fingertips... She had a death grip on my hand and was hiding behind me and he wasn't even out there! We decided that we would go inside and get a few things while we waited for Santa.

When we got done inside and walked out, Santa was there and there was a line of people waiting to get their pictures taken with him. After some discussion, we all got in line to get a picture with Santa. At first we were just going to have the kids get their pictures taken and I tried my hardest to convince Nevaeh that Santa was nice and there was nothing to be afraid of. After a while, we came to a compromise and decided that we would get a family picture with Santa.

The best part was that the picture was FREE!!! And the line was only about 10 people long so we were only in line for about 5 minutes.

It was a great surprise for us and kudos to Jason for taking us there. Thank you Jason!!! We love you!!!

Here is a picture of our picture :-) and some other pictures from last night. They had Santa's mail box there with some paper for the kids to write letters to Santa... They were all in Spanish, but that's ok :-)

Nevaeh's Christmas Program

Today was a very busy day for Nevaeh.

First, Nevaeh had her Hibernation Celebration during school today. All the students in her class wore their pajamas and slippers to school and brought a stuffed animal with them. During school they talked about hibernation and then put their stuffed animals into the hibernation box. In the spring, they will bring them out of hibernation.

Then she had her Christmas program tonight at her school. The kindergarten performed with the 4th graders. It was very cute, they all came dressed in their pajamas and slippers (which they were all wearing during school already). Someone read 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and then they sang songs in between. I didn't check my memory card before we left and I kept running out of room and then having to go back and delete pictures to make more room for more videos. So consequently some of the songs are cut short and for that I apologize. However, I think they are still cute.

One of the best things about today was that Nevaeh got to wear her new night gown that her Grandma Roth made for her. She was very excited to wear it to school and show everyone her "beautiful night gown." Thank you Grandma Roth!

Here is a picture of Kohlton cheering on his big sister.

Here are the videos of the songs.

Pictures

The other day we had Nilda take some pictures of us in the park. Kohlton was quite amusing because he wouldn't sit still to get his picture taken. We did get some good ones though. One of the only ones with Kohlton smiling was the very last picture taken.

Here is a little video of what it is like trying to get Kohlton to sit still :-)

Here are some more pictures that I thought were cute and funny.... enjoy!

A flock of birds flew over us during this picture... Both Nevaeh and Kohlton are looking at them. If they wouldn't have been looking off to the right, it would have been a really good picture.

I'm not quite sure what we're looking at here, but Kohlton is still looking at the birds.

At this park that we were at, they have a bunch of old buildings, houses and such and for some reason there are a bunch of roosters and peacocks out and about. Here are some pictures of Nevaeh chasing one of the roosters and finally catching up to it. Once it finally stopped running and she got close to it, she got scared.

Kohlton Discovers Olives

We had olives tonight with dinner and showed Kohlton how to put them on his fingers. He thought it was pretty funny. Here are a couple pictures I took. It was just cute so I thought I'd share :-)