It's Beginning To Look Alot Like...

As The Herd is preparing for the arrival

of Good Saint Nick,

we try to go the extra mile to make

sure he hasn't forgotten where we live.

So, we track him down wherever we can find him.

This year we found him for breakfast

at Valley Hills Mall.

There the kids got to talk to him

and ride the carousel and other fun stuff!

I think I am going to take up

the art of face painting.

I mean, if she can get Zachary

to sit THAT still...

I'm all in!!!

Getting to spend some extra time

with Aunt Bekah and Mamaw.

Zachary - "That's the Jingle Bell, That's the

Jingle Bell,"That's the Jingle Bell Rock!"

Innocent Little Girl - "What is WRONG

with him? I'd like to Jingle his neck!"

Then we tracked Santa down

to his secret get-away house

in Downtown Newton.

Of course, Zachary wanted to know why

on earth Santa chose Newton for his extra house.

"Well, that's simple", I said,

"Newton is a nice town, and it is almost the halfway

point from the North Pole to

the boys and girls in South America!"

(Makes sense to me, and apparently to him, too,

because he simply replied, "Oh.")

"Are we EVER gonna get to go inside?"

At long last, we get our turn inside

Santa's house. Hannah Grace was

not moving another inch until

she had eaten her cookie!

And Zachary enjoyed some

ice cold snowflake punch

Now, I wonder what they could be conspiring...