Traditions

I started the tradition of going to see Santa Claus and taking our Christmas card photo the Monday of Thanksgiving week! Its working out very nicely! The kids know so there isn't anything to complain about because it just that day every year! 
This year we headed to the mall and pretty much walked right up to see Santa (lets face it everyone is at the grocery stores shopping for Turkey, Santa is not in high demand yet) Blake liked him from afar but wanted nothing to do with him up close. Thankfully Brittney will still go willing with us and get her picture taken with Santa and her little brothers, so she can hold Blake. Not that it made him happier.

After Santa we went and had lunch then headed to my favorite place, yep the beach! It was gorgeous down there! We did about 45 minutes of pictures and just had fun!

Blake was loving it, his little feet, hands and mouth were covered in sand and I loved getting it in the pictures! The kids built a "sandman" for our Christmas cards but we forgot to put their Santa hats on too when we did that pose and I really wanted them to have on Santa hats for our Christmas cards.

He was so cute and we really loved him, so I did what anyone else would do and Photoshopped him into our card picture!

But after we got the card done the snowflakes went right over him and he was hard to see, so I removed him! Our sandman was fun and cute and maybe we will include him in our family again soon!

Not sure what this melt down was about, maybe because he wanted to play and we wanted to do pictures.

It was a fun day! Hopefully we can do a family Christmas card picture soon, its just hard with a busy teen, 2 boys in hockey and a hubby who works long hours.