Monday, December 10, 2007

Who needs Santa anyway?

Sunday we went to the mall to get a picture with Santa. Pudge was all dressed up, tights on, she even had a bow in her hair. We were psyched. As we got closer to Santa's house, I saw kids dressed in thier best holiday attire, patent leather shoes, red and green plaid, it was totally adorable. When we got to Santa, I was surprised that the line wasn't too terribly long. Ha ha, silly first time mama. What I was seeing was the line after the pager had gone off! A pager, I know. I thought I was going to Cheesecake Factory. We signed up for our pager and decided to do some Christmas shopping while we waited. It was 1PM. Around 3, our pager still hadn't gone off and Dave and I had exhausted all our shopping options. Grace was exhausted as well. We decided to check where our name was on the list. We went back to Santa's house, no Santa. He takes a break from 3-4PM. Great. Dave asked one of the elves how much longer they thought it would be. The elf said, "Oh, you guys should get to see him by 5:30!" Are you kidding me! My mind flashed to the scene in a Christmas Story when Ralphy and his annoying little brother were waiting to see Santa. Well, we weren't waiting any longer. Ho, Ho, Ho...


Here in place of the Santa picture:



5 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's better than any picture with a stranger in a red suit.

Anonymous said...

That is a FAR better and sweeter picture than Grace with a creepy man....it's so adorable!

Love,
Stack

Anonymous said...

That is the cutest Santa I have eveer seen!!

Love,
Mom

K said...

that is SO adorable! it def. beats any mall pic!
kjw

Anonymous said...

She is so cute I just want to give her a big kiss!!!!