Santa Visit

The beginning of December has been surprisingly pretty quiet. Life with a new puppy has been keeping us busy & staying home on top of me taking a call weekend & all that life at home brings.

It is now a week away from Christmas & we have yet to go make our annual visit to see Santa Claus. How can this have happened? Usually I am on top of my holiday game but the days in this month have seemed to escape me.

Mase has been asking me for a couple of weeks now when we were going to see Santa because he wants to tell him what he wants for Christmas. Pretty sure if he doesn't get to tell Santa what he wants he is still going to get the presents but little does he know :) Figured I better make it happen so me & my Mommy friend Dana decided to take the kiddos after work this evening to go see the jolly ol' man. After seeing Santa with Mase 4 years in a row Shane decided to sit this one out this year. Bah humbug!

Like we have done the past 3 years, we went to the Bass Pro where they have the best Santa & an amazing Winter Wonderland. We got inside & headed over to the station where you get your Santa visit pass. It was a Monday night & sadly we had an hour & 1/2 wait. Looks like we weren't the only parents who were scrambling to get our "wish lists" in to Santa before Christmas?!

Since we had some time to kill we decided to feed the littles at the restaurant inside of Bass Pro. We all got through an uneventful dinner with 5 kiddos & then decided to look around Bass Pro, check out the equipment & fun booths for the kiddos until it was time to get in line for Santa.

 

We stood in line for about 15 minutes & the littles were really well behaved. They were too busy checking out Santa & all his surroundings to be distracted by being bored waiting in line.

(last minute "add-on" to Mason's wish list for Santa LOL)

 

I was unsure if Mason would sit in Santa's lap this year & he actually asked me in a panic if he would have too since he saw other kiddos in his lap. I assured him that he could stand next to Santa instead if he wanted & he was pretty content with my answer.

Wish list given to Santa & candy cane earned :)

 

Annual photo with Santa

After we saw Santa it was after 8pm & the kiddos were getting cranky so we headed home. Even though it was a "school night" I am so glad we got out & were able to check this annual holiday event off our list! Now Santa knows what to bring Mason on Christmas Eve - thank goodness!!