Fryday Contest anyone???

Yeah, I know I misspelled Friday...but for good reason ;) If you don't know already, I follow a blog called My Charming Kids...along with thousands of other people! Go check out her blog and enter the contest going on if you so wish :) While you're there, read about the MckMiracle known as Stellan...you will leave amazed and awed at the power of prayer and God!!!

We Are Thankful!!!

Here's a pic from the kids' Thanksgiving playgroup on Friday. Do you know how hard it is to get kids to sit still for a picture...darn near impossible! I have other pics, but I didn't want to post the other kids' pictures without permission from their parents ;)

Clifford

Completely forgot that we also saw Clifford at the mall yesterday. There was a storytime, but we decided to go look at the toy stores instead since there was another 30 min wait and the kids were tired of sitting still. Here are a couple pics of Kiana giving him hugs though.

Here comes Santa Clause, Here comes Santa Clause.....

Yeah, yeah...I know...it's not even Thanksgiving yet. But the mall had the grand entrance of Santa today, and we decided it would be the perfect thing to do on a rainy Saturday!

As we stood in line (for an hour...after the hour long wait and performance before), I kept asking Kiana if she was going to sit on Santa's lap and tell him what she wanted. After last year, with her not wanting ANYTHING to do with sitting on his lap, I wanted to make sure the wait would be worth it. She kept assuring me that she would and was SO excited about it!! I was very relieved when she followed through with her promise. Not only did she sit on his lap and smile for pictures...even if it was for my camera instead of their photog's..but she also told him exactly what she wanted. The ice cream parlor (http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/ProductsByBrand.htm?BR=837&SBR=675) and fashion puppy (a puppy in it's own carrier that she carries around Walmart every time we're there). I was so proud of her!

Mav is of course a ham for any kind of pictures, and I was so glad that he took the waiting in stride and was perfectly behaved...as others were having meltdowns around us! He even got "interviewed" by the news while waiting in line LOL. He's destined to be a star..this is the second time in the last two months that he's been in the news/newspaper while at events. First for Halloween, and now for this. Maybe he can support his mama someday ;)

Without further ado..here are a couple pics of the kids with Santa...
























Looking at my camera....

Still looking at my camera....

Hey....what's under this beard???

My personal fav...Mav is looking at her like "you want what...and you really expect to get that...???"

All Aboard the Polar Express

We took the kids to the mall today to see Santa's grand entrance. They were giving out "train tickets" to the first 200 kids in line to redeem for a "special gift". We were numbers 24 and 25 :) And we only had to wait in line for an hour ;)












Then, we got complimentary cookies and hot cocoa and settled in to watch a preview of The Polar Express. It was performed by a very talented local performing arts studio. It was really cute...the kids were in a trance ;)

Next, we headed up to "Santa's house" in the mall to wait in line for another hour for pictures and our "special gift"...which turned out to be much better than I expected!!! A complete Polar Express set with the book, CD, and cassette, and the special bell! Just like the one I have...so now they each have their own copy!