A Visit with Santa

We went to Uptown Shelby tonight to see Santa. We've done this for the past 3 years & it's so much fun. They have a Santa house every Friday night before Christmas in Dec. and they offer lots of games & activities for kids, horse carriage rides (we've never done that), Christmas music, free hot chocolate and the court square is decorated so pretty with lots of lights in the trees. We got there at 5:10 and stood in line until 7:45 to see Santa. Yes, it's ridiculous when you can go to the mall and spend about 15 min... if that much... from start to finish. But, I really didn't mind it. I was freezing and my big toe was numb, but we knew plenty of people in line around us and the atmosphere is great. The boys always look forward to this. I wasn't sure how Kensley would be, but she didn't care too much for Santa (as you can see from the picture). She didn't mind looking at him or him talking to her, she just didn't want to sit near him. The boys asked for their video game and a bunch of other stuff I've never heard before and we were on our merry way.

Focuntrate

Chandler has created a new word... "focuntrate"... the other day he was doing homework & it was kind of loud and Carter was bugging him, so he screams "i can't focuntrate!" I just busted out laughing because it's a pretty good word I think. He combined focus and concentrate... therefore we now have "focuntrate". He's used it a lot this week. I think I should send it into Websters... hee, hee!

Haneline Family Christmas 2007

We had Christmas this weekend with Corby's family. This is the second year that we've done it early & it's great! With 22 people in the family and lots of kids and parties and Christmas plays and functions, it's much easier. I really gets you in the holiday mood. The kids of course love it because they get presents early.

We had pictures made on Saturday morning of the whole family. I'll post those when I can. I think they are going to be great. Then we all went to lunch on Saturday. The kids played hard all afternoon and Sat. night we opened presents. His parents are building an addition onto their house, but it wasn't quite ready yet. However, it was far enough along that we got to have Christmas in the new part. We pulled out lawn chairs, put down a tarp, hung some festive decor & the kids helps decorate the tree. It was great. Sunday we went to church and that afternoon the kids opened their stockings. We had a great weekend.