Sunday, December 14, 2008

Breakfast with Santa


Saturday morning we headed over to the Normal Community Center to have Breakfast with Santa. Our friends Tami and Mike and their two children went with us. Emily was so excited (to see her friend Emma, not Santa) she could hardly contain her excitement.
When we got there, she got a santa picture and some crayons. Shockingly, she actually sat and colored for a while!
It didn't take long though and her and Emma were off and running!
The ramp over to the left of Emily in this first picture was where they enjoyed themselves the most.




They really liked sitting in Santa's chair (until Santa was in it...see below :)













Even though they were one of the youngest at the breakfast they weren't shy when it came time to get up on stage and sing Christmas carols. Once they stopped eating the bells, they actually had some rhythm.





But then, that scary man Santa had to come and ruin all of their fun :) Once she got off of his lap, the tears stopped immediately, she thanked him for the gift and quickly said bye-bye.
Daddy asked her if she wanted to go sit with him again, and I think before the question was out of his mouth, Emily's quick response was NO! We've got it on video, but I haven't figured out how to upload that yet!
After Santa took off, she was back to her happy self!!
I'm guessing she won't be up waiting this year to see the man in the red suit!!
Happy holidays to everyone!!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Baking Cookies


Things have been pretty busy for us lately so I apologize for the lack of posts. We traveled the circuit for the Thanksgiving holiday and visited all of our families. We have some cute pictures for you guys!
Since we've been back it seems like time is just flying by. I can't believe we're a week an a half from Christmas break!

This past weekend we had a visit from Kristy and Adam. We had lots of fun when they were here! We took Emily to the ISU basketball game on Saturday night. She actually made it through most of the game! She was a big fan of the popcorn that I did not want her to have ( of course ).
But the big highlight of the weekend was baking on Sunday. As many of you know, baking is NOT one of my favorite things to do but since Kristy, aka Martha Stewart, was here to help I thought it might be fun...and it was...for the most part. We made pretzels and cashew clusters and almost 8 dozen holiday cookies. I can finally say that they are all decorated!




Emily definitely enjoyed herself! Can't say she was much help, but maybe next year! The tradition has begun!!