This week has been full of fun activities to start the Christmas season. On Monday we went to Costco and they were having a holiday shopping day with dinner and Santa. They said they would have food and I just assumed it would be the normal samples, but it ended up being a full on nacho bar with a muffin and bottled water, plus the additional samples. It was good, but messy, when you have kids trying to eat standing up, sitting on the floor, and sitting in the shopping cart. There was a huge crowd where the food was, so we thought we'd be in for a long wait to see Santa. We walked around and did all our shopping and then went to find Santa. I guess the word hadn't gotten out yet, because there were only 2 people ahead of us in line. The kids all sat with Santa and Mrs. Claus and told them what they wanted for Christmas. I knew Emery was going to have problems, so I had Bailey sit on Santa and then put Emery on Bailey's lap. She wriggled off the first attempt and tried to get away, but we were able to get her to sit there for a split second to take the picture. The whole time she was looking behind her and didn't want anything to do with Santa. The picture is really funny, because of her ornery face. Other than the fact that 2 of the kids' gift requests were a surprise and unreasonable, we had a fun time. Cam decided he wanted drums and Bailey changed her request at the last minute and out of the blue asked for a Nintendo DS...What?! Trying to convince Cam that Santa knows we have no room for drums and that Nintendo DS is still too expensive even for Santa, is difficult to do.
On Tuesday night Chase put on the new snow cables on the van's tires and we decided to drive around and test them out and look at the Christmas lights. We ended up going back to the house afterward, picking up my mom, and driving up to the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon to see the Festival of Lights. It was really pretty with all of the fresh snow that had just fallen. The Christmas music was fun to listen to as well, especially Chase's singing along to Feliz Navidad, he has a great Spanish accent : ) . My mom tried to convince Chase to join the ward choir, but he pleaded his case that they wouldn't want him singing along with that accent with other songs. We got towards the end of the lights when we saw a little house that I guess was supposed to be Santa's shop at the North Pole with a huge Santa manaquin waving on the front porch. At first look the Santa seems really lifelike and we were all trying to decide if it was a real person or not. So, I dared Chase to go touch Santa. I didn't think he would do it, but the next thing I knew he was out of the car running up to touch Santa, gave him a pat on the hand, and ran back. It was hillarious! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. We thought Chase might receive a life time ban from Festival of Lights for his shenanigans, but nobody said anything to us or tried to stop us.
On Wednesday we went to Chuck-a-rama which is a buffet style restaurant. Our kids all had free coupons, so it was a really good deal. The food was really good, too. I loved the fried chicken, scones, and rolls. Chase said it was all worth it just to eat their wings. The kids I think have fond memories of the icecream bar. I couldn't believe how much my kids were able to pack away, and nobody got sick! Afterwards, we drove back to Costco and picked up our free picture of the kids and Santa.
On Tuesday night Chase put on the new snow cables on the van's tires and we decided to drive around and test them out and look at the Christmas lights. We ended up going back to the house afterward, picking up my mom, and driving up to the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon to see the Festival of Lights. It was really pretty with all of the fresh snow that had just fallen. The Christmas music was fun to listen to as well, especially Chase's singing along to Feliz Navidad, he has a great Spanish accent : ) . My mom tried to convince Chase to join the ward choir, but he pleaded his case that they wouldn't want him singing along with that accent with other songs. We got towards the end of the lights when we saw a little house that I guess was supposed to be Santa's shop at the North Pole with a huge Santa manaquin waving on the front porch. At first look the Santa seems really lifelike and we were all trying to decide if it was a real person or not. So, I dared Chase to go touch Santa. I didn't think he would do it, but the next thing I knew he was out of the car running up to touch Santa, gave him a pat on the hand, and ran back. It was hillarious! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. We thought Chase might receive a life time ban from Festival of Lights for his shenanigans, but nobody said anything to us or tried to stop us.
On Wednesday we went to Chuck-a-rama which is a buffet style restaurant. Our kids all had free coupons, so it was a really good deal. The food was really good, too. I loved the fried chicken, scones, and rolls. Chase said it was all worth it just to eat their wings. The kids I think have fond memories of the icecream bar. I couldn't believe how much my kids were able to pack away, and nobody got sick! Afterwards, we drove back to Costco and picked up our free picture of the kids and Santa.
Sounds like you've been having lots of festive fun!!
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