Ho. Ho. Ho.

The Schienbein children got to sit on Santa's lap today and tell him what they want for Christmas. As we approached Santa's "workshop",(located just in front of Sears) I got a little bit nervous. There was a little baby boy, who looked to be about Carson's age, screaming his little head off as his mother rescued him from Santa's grasp. Tayler, being the observant girl that she is, mentioned that the guy sitting in the big green chair didn't really look like the REAL Santa. I informed her that it might be just one of his elves filling in for him today. All those malls...he's gotta be getting some help. I then very cheerfully said "Hi Santa!!" getting excited to get my kids on his lap, to which he replied in a very non-Christmas or Santa like tone, "hey". It almost reminded me of Billy Bob Thorton in the movie Bad Santa. Bummer. But, much to my delight, Carson didn't mind sitting on the chubby guys lap one bit! In fact, we even got a couple of laughs out of our baby boy! And Tayler just chatted away with Ol' St. Nick....filling him in on all of her wants for Christmas, a Nintendo DS being at the top of the list. To top it all of, Tayler got a candy cane...which was really the icing on the cake for her.

So all in all, our 2008 Santa Clause visit went pretty well. And, with out further ado, here it is:

Merry Christmas to All!!!