Visit With Santa

Today Marla and I took the kids to see Santa. It was a success with all kids. We weren't that impressed with the Santa and will probably stick with the Northpark one for the remainder of Santa visits. But, that's ok its done for 2013 and the girls (and Nolan) enjoyed it. 

I was nervous that Payton would be really shy and maybe even cry since she gets scared of pretty much everything for some reason. But, she did so good and I am very proud of her. 

I could only take pictures with my phone and so they are a little blurry, but at least I got these!

Here is the expensive photo I paid for... Ridiculous how much they charge. 

After Santa we went to the Disney store to look around and then let the girls ride the carousal. Marla took these pictures of the girls. Nolan and I sat this one out! :)

And of course looking back for fun...

2009

2010

We saw Santa twice in 2010

2011

2012

2013

Gosh she has grown so much over these years. It goes way too fast for me. 

Christmas Pictures 2013

Today since the weather was so nice, I decided to get Payton dressed and go take a few pictures of her in her Christmas dress. You will be seeing a lot of posts with her in this dress. Gotta get my money’s worth!!

I know I am not a photographer, but since I have a good camera I just can’t justify paying someone to take her pictures.  So this is as good as it gets. And she is so pretty I think these are great pictures. I know I am biased.

 

The next few we were just playing around for fun!

 

 

Gingerbread House Decorating 2013

This morning Payton and I decorated her gingerbread house! I thankfully found the one that was pre-built this year. I usually buy the one that is pre-built but last year I bought the one you had to actually build, by mistake. We ended up throwing it away. I couldn’t get it to stick together.

Anyhow, she really enjoyed decorating this!!

   

Disney on Ice November 2013

This past Friday my mom took Marla, the girls, and I to Disney on Ice. This time it wasn’t just princesses and it was such a great show! They had scenes from Pinocchio, Mulan, Toy Story, The Incredibles, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and many more than I can’t think of all the names right now. The girls really enjoyed it and so did us adults too!

 

Grace thought she was going to be scared before the show ever started.. However, Payton ended up being the one that would start shaking when the characters got close. We had floor front row seats so we were so close we could almost touch them. And some did put on their hand and we touched their hand. But, not Payton. She is scared of so many things. I don’t understand.

So spoiled they each got a Jessie doll and Bullseye horse from Toys Story

You can see how close we really were

 

Here are a few of the characters I took, not many because I was just enjoying the show.

They had all the princesses there, and Payton told me she loved seeing all of them like that. It was pretty neat, and to a kid I am sure it is really neat!!!