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 :-)
2 comments:
How cute! Your family pic turned out great!
I've missed you the last few weeks. Were you out of town too over the break?
finally! so i was just thinking about how you mentioned that you got a blog started but you never told me the address. I was just about to email you and ask for it but thought maybe it's on nilda's. sure enough, & i'll be waiting for an update {smile}.
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