Breakfast with Santa

Breakfast with Santa speaks for itself this year.  Not much changes from year to year, so you know the drill: breakfast of muffins, eggs, hash browns, chocolate milk and orange juice.   Cambrie helped cook this year.

 A visit from Santa.  Hearing a Christmas story read by the red elf.  Sitting on Santa's knee.  Pictures with Santa.  Cousin gifts.  Then top it off with the mismatched Nativity story.  It is a loud and crazy party.  There were 62 of us there this year, more if you count the extra dogs that came.  The highlights of the day for me are watching my kids' faces when Santa walks into the room.  I love the magic in their eyes.  They always have the biggest, truest smiles when talking with Santa.  Cambrie is getting old enough now that she's getting a little bashful, and I love seeing that too.  

Santa's here!

Daxton asked for a fish

Kelton asked for a fish too.

McKenzie asked for an American Girl hedgehog toy.

And Cambrie asked for a real, living snake.  That definitely drew a reaction from the crowd.

It's a wonder that Santa doesn't grow tired from smiling all the time.  It's time to build some family pictures.

Santa with the great grandkids

Bruce and Leesa with their grandkids

The whole Rogers clan

Just our little family

Louses with grandkids and spouses

This is me keeping my little guy entertained while we waited for all of the pictures to be taken.  They can definitely take awhile.

After Santa left we had the cousin gift exchange.

I absolutely LOVE this!  It's the awkward cousin hug.  Oh these kids are getting so big!

Gifts from Louesa

One of the most carefree parts of the morning actually came when we were cleaning up.  Louesa pulled out the vacuum and tried to vacuum up the little boys toys.  Kelton is now asking for a vacuum for Christmas!