Santa arrival to City Creek

Thursdays are busy days for us. The girls have band/orchestra then they plus Kade go to children's choir until 530. While Jaxon and I were waiting, I saw online that Santa was coming early to city creek mall. So when the kids were done, we drive to city creek. We needed up eating at the food court where each kid was able to choose what they wanted to eat (they LOVED this) then we ran over to H&M for some gloves since it was freezing. Paul met us right before it started. There were elves passing out glowsticks and the whole crowd started singing Christmas carols. Then Santa showed up on the roof tops and confetti went out over the crowd. It was such a fun time! 

Naughty or Nice?

f you ask Blake if he is naughty or nice, he is very insistent that he is nice. He goes around the house singing "you better watch out, Santa Claus is coming to town!" He's been obsessed this year. Last year, he wouldn't even go near a Santa figure we have so we were excited to see what he would do around the real Santa. He was thrilled to say the least. We braved the CRAZY Christmas Mall Shopping crowds the last Saturday before Christmas to see good ol' St. Nick. All three kids were thrilled! Blake looks grumpy in all these pictures only because he did NOT want to take pictures, he wanted to look at Santa. It was a drastic change from last year where I had to be in the picture so he would sit near Santa.Waiting to see Santa, Blake's trying to peek around the corner to see Santa some more...
Finally getting to sit on Santa's lap. The girls were shy but told Santa they wanted a Baby (again?) and Blake says tools. I just love this time of year especially since I've had kids! They make it all so much fun especially once they start understanding it all. I can't wait for next year when the baby is here and our family is complete!