Christmas Eve, the continuing saga

Here's more of Wyatt visiting with Santa on Christmas Eve. You might notice how all the poor Whetten children are being so polite to wait their turn, while my son refuses to get off Santa's knee! I think he could have stayed there and visited with Santa for hours!

Christmas Eve part 1

The Whettens are my childhood nieghbors, and they are some awesome folks! Every Christmas Eve they invite Santa to come and visit with the childeren and they invite Wyatt to come and see him too! Lance Whetten even wrapped Wyatt's gift like all the other kids so all the gifts would be the same. So cool!

Wipeout!

You know those crazy kids who get their friends to video tape them wiping out on their skateboard or bike and they end up in the hospital after some gnarly crash? I'm pretty sure Wyatt is headed that way, and I'm the camera man!

A Different Kind of a Ward Christmas Party

All I have to say is this...Kendall Tenney from Channel 3 News as Santa Claus and Judge Doug Smith singing "Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer!" I love my new ward!

Let it Snow, Let is Snow, Let it Snow...Bubbles?

Town Square is one of the coolest places in Las Vegas. You can feel like you're in a whole other world just wondering the pretend little streets, window shopping. I love it there, and I wish I lived closer, so I could go more often. I think it was last year, when they started having "snow" for the holidays at Town Square. The advertisement was always somewhat vague, but we decided to go for ourselves and see what it was all about. We anxiously waited by the beautiful Christmas tree when all of a sudden festive Christmas music began playing and "SNOW" was falling all around us. It was really coming down on us, but we couldn't quite figure out what it was, that is, until I got a good look at my mother-in-law's glasses. "Snow" had landed on her lens and I realized, the "snow" was actually clusters of BUBBLES! No wonder it tasted terrible when it landed in my mouth! Still, it was super fun, we laughed so much, and it was a great way to spend a night for the holidays!

Hello Santa!

I have waxed poetic about Bass Pro Christmas village quite often to my friends, and today, it is no different. While other Christmas events involve terrible parking and outrageous entry fees, which you feel guilty for not paying because it is for a "good cause," I like to go to safe, indoor Bass Pro to celebrate the holidays. They have an entire Christmas village where we drove RC trucks, played bass fishing on the Wii, shot arcade guns, and walked right up to see SANTA! He was an awesome Santa too. He was quiet and gentle, and made Wyatt feel like he was the only child in the world! The picture with Santa was FREE and they let me take as many of my own pictures as I wanted. It was a sweet, magical experience that made me want to cry! This is the first year Wyatt has "gotten" the concept of Santa. He's not a big scary man with a beard anymore. We wrote Santa a letter and put it in the special mailbox. Then Santa just sat with Wyatt and quietly visited with him. After the pictures, we played all the games, and then had dinner at the buffet. It was a simple, wonderful night! Thanks Santa!

A Christmas Conversation

So my family was snuggled on the couch this past Sunday afternoon, drinking homemade hot chocolate and watching "The Year Without Santa Claus," one of those clay-mation movies from the 70's before Pixar and anything related to a computer. The premise of the story is Santa gets a cold, therefore he gets grumpy and thinks no one likes Christmas anymore. Because of this, Santa decides he doesn't want to do Christmas this year. So Mrs. Claus sends 2 elves and Vixen down to the children to try to find some hope for Christmas in order to encourage Santa to do his job this year. Well, problems start to happen, Vixen gets really sick, the elves get lost, its a big ol' mess! That's when the following conversation between my husband and I begins:

Byron: See, if Mrs. Claus would have known her place, these bad things wouldn't of happened.

Sommer (glaring) Are you blaming these bad things on Mrs. Claus? If Santa wouldn't have gotten lazy, none of this would have to happen in the first place.

Byron: Its totally Mrs. Claus's fault. She always has to step in and do things that aren't necessary!

Sommer: But once again, Santa has to be nagged into doing his responsibilities, and I'm sure Mrs. Claus got sick of that and so she had to take matters into her own hands.

Byron: Santa would have gotten it done eventually. Mrs. Claus just needs to relax.

Sommer: But Mrs. Claus couldn't of relaxed because when Santa gets a sniffle, then world shuts down. But if Mrs. Claus gets full-blown pneumonia, she still needs to feed the elves, make the toys, and bake cookies for Santa's caloric intake!

That's when I realize...I don't think we're not talking about Santa and Mrs. Claus anymore! ;)

Send your own ElfYourself eCards