Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all! Here is Holly's Santa photo for this year - I had to be in it with her as you can see, but at least we have one for 2008 (we didn't even get one for 2007!). It took about 10 minutes to convince her to get in line to talk to Santa - we'd been telling her if she didn't visit Santa and tell him what she wanted, she'd get a blue firetruck or something else for Christmas.

I love the Santa in this picture - he looks very authentic, like the one at the mall near our house (who we took pictures with in 2005 & 2006) . This Santa belongs to an association of real bearded Santas! We started talking and I said Santas are much more authentic than when I was a child... he said they have come a long way even in just the past 10 years. We'll have to decide where to visit Santa next year - Royal City Centre or Brentwood Mall?!














Mimi (Holly's friend Cassie-Anne's mom) sent us a link to create a video message from Santa for your child. It's pretty cool and the expression on Holly's face was priceless when she saw her picture in Santa'a book! This is the link to the website: http://portablenorthpole.sympatico.msn.ca/home/

And here is the video Holly received:
http://portablenorthpole.sympatico.msn.ca/watch/c8e1fad32a334df0b18d168749f923ad