Visit with Santa - Strike 1

We took the girls to see Santa tonight and failed miserably.  We got there just after 4:00 knowing that Santa took a break from 5-6pm to feed his reindeer.  But we were told that the people they just let through would be the last to visit with Santa before he took his break.  And you can bet that the girls weren't going to wait two hours for the jolly old man to return. 

So we went to Sears to buy a new dishwasher instead.  Yeah, ours conked out on us about a week ago.  Darn thing was slightly less than 3 years old!!  Grrr.  It's been an expensive Christmas season for us.  A couple weeks ago we bought a treadmill as a gift to each other...had we known that we would then be buying a new dishwasher we may have passed on the treadmill.  Oh well, what can you do?

We're going to attempt Santa again, either tomorrow or Christmas Eve.  Unfortunately, we're not going anywhere for Christmas because I work bright and early that morning at 6:30am.  Such is the life of working for a facility that never closes.  But at least the time and a half will help pay for the unexpected expense of a new dishwasher, right?  Focus on the positives, focus on the positives.

Since I don't have any Santa pictures, here are some bathtime pictures instead.

By the way, we did celebrate Christmas with Nate's family this weekend but I haven't downloaded pictures yet.  I'll make sure to share them when I do!!  And then we'll be having a small belated Christmas with my family over the New Year...so don't feel too sorry for us!!  Fortunately, the girls don't know Christmas from any other day of the year just yet.