Every year Gaga buys the kids (and herself) matching Christmas jammies! With all of my laundry FINALLY caught up three weeks after I started it (thanks to my elf this weekend!!!), I seized the moment for a few Christmas pics of the kids! Wait until you see how many pics I had to take in attempt to get one decent picture of my three goons! Click above...you'll get a good laugh! :)
So I discovered that Schlotzsky's was having Santa for dinner tonight and thought that would be such a FUN surprise for the boys! Like the single Mom I recently became...I packed up the kids and took them to dinner not letting in on the fact that there would be a surprise guest! We arrived about 15 minutes before Santa and were eating (actually Luke & I were eating...Brian and Matt were in the middle of a giant kicking match under the table) when we heard jingle bells and a loud HO-HO-HO! All of my kids stopped dead in their tracks...Matt actually dropped his sandwich and Brian ever so slowly made it look like he had been innocently eating ;) Luke could actually see Santa from his seat and busted out waving and screaming "Hi Santa!" OMG...what fun this turned out to be! Since there were only six people in the restaurant, my kids spent a good 10 minutes chatting with Santa. Luke was busy showing him his Mickey crocs, Brian was telling him about his sleepover party he went to and Matt was telling him how much he likes candy canes (subtly hinting for a second one!) Poor Daddy was definitely bummed to have missed this super fun surprise!!!
Anyone who has talked to Luke in the past few weeks knows that he had "a really BIG show at preschool today!" He has been soooo excited for his Christmas performance and was downright giddy that Mommy, Gaga, Brian, Matt, Ms. Candice and Daddy all came to watch him! He proudly stood in front of the whole school wearing his Mickey hat, singing away! Five straight years of seeing the same show (with various children of mine in it every time!) and I still look forward to it each year ;)
Thank goodness for my parents acting like elves and stepping in to help us function :) Even with Craig homebound...we are managing to make sure the kids get in all of their Christmas fun! Last weekend was Cookies with Santa at our neighborhood clubhouse. I played single Mom and took the boys to get our Santa pics out of the way and not have to fight the mall! We saw the Big Guy, got our pics, had our cookies and made it home all in under 45 minutes...not too shabby!!!
