Meeting Santa

I took the kids to Fort Fisher the other day to try to get some pictures to pull together a Christmas card. Alas, we've decided to go with a Happy New Year card instead - I swear the timing of getting pneumonia around Thanksgiving was the absolute worst for my Christmas preparations!! Anyways, the photo shoot was seeming like a complete flop when Danny spotted someone special across the park! Another family had hired a Santa to take pictures with them and before I could stop him, Danny was on his lap! Crew didn't like him nearly as much...

And then mom and Jerry had organized with the CB Fire Department to have Santa (who happened to be the same one pictured above - great for solidifying the Santa "story), to stop by in a FIRE TRUCK to deliver presents (their own toy fire trucks) to Danny and Crew. I planned a little party to have everyone over for the event and wouldn't you know they came 45 mins before the start of the time window (between 6-8pm) and didn't call ahead of time like they said they would, so mom, Jerry and Jimmy all missed it. Very disappointing, but still a success considering the boys love their fire trucks. As for the whole experience, Danny was a little timid at first, but warmed up to his friend. Crew still doesn't like him.