Saturdays with Santa

 

I wanted to do a post on Thanksgiving but seeing as this is the only picture I took from Thanksgiving I'm thinking it will have to wait until I can steal some pictures from my dad.  I will say Thanksgiving was wonderful.  The kids played for hours and hours with their cousins, we ate delicious food, and Bryson introduced us to the card game Dots and watching my Grandmother learn this new card game may have been the funniest thing any of us had ever seen.

 

So after a wonderful Thanksgiving and some seriously fun Black Friday shopping with my mom, Kena, and Hannah and then a fun Friday evening of playing more Dots with Aunt B and Gran B it was Saturday and we had a fun day ahead of us. 

Last year Devon started Saturdays with Santa where you can go visit Santa at the beautiful Devon building and they have fun activities set up for the kids and it's all free!  Last year we went with the Cunningham Family and we decided to make it a yearly tradition.  We arrived about 20 minutes before opening time and we waited outside and we quickly realized it was very chilly!

Absolutely love doing things with the Cunningham kids.  Brody, Cooper, and Meg fight like brothers and sisters do but they all treat Georgia like the little princess she is!

Saturdays with Santa had grown a lot since last year and they even had an electronic check in system where they text you when it's your turn to visit Santa.  We just had a quick little wait which gave the kids time to have a nice little chat with one of Santa's elves!

Both kids just love Santa so much!

Can you tell how happy they are?

They both explained to Santa what they were hoping for this Christmas.  Brody couldn't decide what to say and eventually told him a cross bow and some random truck that I have no idea what he is even talking about.  Meg asked for a Frozen castle that Santa assumed meant a Barbie Dream House with a black elevator.

Then it was Cooper's turn.  I loved how him and Santa just had a little heart to heart.  Neither one of them looked like they were in a hurry to go anywhere!

Making sure he really explains it well!

And then it was poor little Georgia's turn.  This cracks me up so much!  She recovered in like one minute!

I made fun of Rob's picture taking skills and then got home to realize he took a darn good picture of our family!

Candy canes make everyone happy!

This year they had a station set up where you could package goodies to send to the soldiers overseas.  The kids were so into decorating the boxes and putting the supplies together. 

I think Brody wrote "Hope you get presents"

Cooper and Meg wanted to visit Mrs. Claus too

Brody acted like he was too cool for that

And then he just couldn't resist!

Then we waited in a line for the Christmas Train.  Carolina and Bryson always manage to have a good time together!

Bryson and I decided we weren't riding the train and Meg wanted to sit in the green car and all the other kids wanted to sit in the Blue car so she decided to ride by herself.  Rob felt sorry for her and jumped in at the last minute.

Carolina was as a trooper and rode along too!

I'm thinking Rob really did want to ride that train!

I love the big red ornament they have on the front lawn!

And jumping pictures always make me laugh!

Love this family!

Then we went for breakfast at Waffle Champion.  It is a fairly new restaurant that was obviously too hip for Rob and Bryson.  I really enjoyed it but it wasn't the most kid friendly place.  And they may still be scrubbing the table we sat out after a marker incident.  Oops.  It was a super fun day and going with friends made it even more fun!