BYU Party and Pics with Santa

I forgot to post about this "fun" event recently. Probably cuz of all of the chaos that went along with this great event. So We got up bright and early for this party (it started at 9:00 AM) and we got there right before and there were lines already formed for the crafts and to see Santa. It is absolutely nuts around here. Not sure if we'll do it again next year, but this year I was bound and determined to get a pic with Santa and them not push me through like they did last year. So I sat in the line and Randy took the kids to write a letter to S. Clause and get donuts and see what else was around. We sat in line forever again, but we were closer to the front this year starting off, so we tried to handle it. We watched a dance company do a couple of numbers from the Nutcracker Ballet as we waited and the kids made a few friends in line too.

This is a great progression of pictures. Malia doesn't remember Santa from last year and her face is just awesome. (noticing Santa)(Freaking out about Santa). Can't get much better than that. Micah was pretty happy to see him, nervous about it at first but he saw his brave sisters get up there which helped. They did get individual shots this year (done by some people there), and they were free, but when I went to pick them up later they were all blurry, I mean seriously people, if your job is to take pictures at an event, can you find someone who knows something about cameras? It wasn't just mine either, every one's was blurry, it was ridiculous. I'm just glad I got these shots of them.

Right after the visit with Santa, McKenzie and I bolted out of there (while Randy stayed with the other 3 and took them through the craft line and played a few games) to try and make it in time for a couple of McKenzie's friend's baptism. Two of the boys in her primary class were baptized and we really wanted to be there for them. We were worried that we weren't going to make it in time because the Santa line was taking soo long, but the first speaker on "baptism" apparently took a long time (which I heard was a wonderful talk), but we were grateful for it, we got there right at the end of her talk and got to see both of them (and apparently another little girl in her school class) be baptized. It was great. I am so glad she has soo many friends around here who are members. Baptisms are fun, and an easy way to go down memory lane and revisit our own baptism day.

Regardless, it was a great day, we also went and picked out our tree and decorated it too. Gotta love weekends.