Getting Ready for Christmas

We went to the children's annual Christmas breakfast over at our church on Saturday. These are a few of the video highlights.

We waited patiently to see Santa, and before long we found ourselves at the front of the line. Nate was excited but Sean got a little nervous. He seemed to calm down when we told him Santa would give him a candy cane.

Nate hopped right on Santa's lap. He knows it's not the real Santa, though. He said this was just one of Santa's helpers wearing a fake beard because Santa is too busy to be everywhere.

Candy Cane or not, Sean wanted nothing to do with it but can you blame him? For the second year in a row we didn't get a good Santa photo but I bet he'll be ready next time!

On Sunday Nate was in the Christmas pageant. Here he is in his angel outfit, backstage before the big event.

Let it Snow!

We got s little snow a few days ago. Nate's an old pro, but this is the first year that Sean was really big enough to enjoy it. They both loved being pulled around the yard in a sled. There wasn't a whole lot of snow on the ground the first day but more fell overnight.


Sean decided that he would try his hand at making a snowball. There wasn't enough to make Frosty but there was certainly enough to throw at his brother!

Grab Bag

The two photos have absolutely no relation to each other, but that's what we have this week so we thought we'd share them anyway.

A couple of years ago, Nate absolutely had to have a light-up reindeer that moved its head back and forth. The whole neighborhood knows our house now: "Oh, you live in the house with the reindeer in the porch." This is the view that greets cars and pedestrians that pass by during the holiday season.

Nate agrees that Sean does a great imitation of Michael Jackson. He doesn't know who Michael Jackson is, but Sean still looks like him.