Let the festivities begin

After a trip to Dickinson today for Kynlie's speech, we came home to take in the festivities our community puts on to start the holiday season.

We went to the fire hall and saw Santa, Kynlie didn't want anything to do with him and Locklyn didn't mind him. Kynlie did warm up to him a little bit and told him "I want a meow and sissy wants a Dora"  Santa replied with "cool!" Really, cool?

More than excited to see Santa!

 From the fire hall we went and had some chili, then walked over to the sis-in-law's coffee shoppe and had a coffee and waited for the parade of lights to begin. Neil's business had 3 awesome floats in the parade. I only got decent pictures of two of the floats but the other one was a live manger. This was by far the best parade of lights I have seen in Baker, more businesses than ever put together great floats and handed out TONS of candy and goodies.

Santa's sleigh with real santa!

 After the parade we came home and put on our Santa jammies, only to be surprised by a knock on the door by none other than Santa! Once again, Locklyn didn't mind him and when I went over to pick Kynlie up, she was shaking and wrapped her legs around me so tight that there was going to be no peeling her off me. She did tell him once again that "She wants a kitty cat and sissy wants Dora." Hopefully Santa knows we don't like animals that shed in our house:) She then told Santa that she loves him and may have accidentally said "I love you grandpa- or Santa" I don't think she knew who it was but just said Grandpa out of habit.

 Of course, after Santa left Kynlie was looking out the door for him, and walking around the house saying "HOHOHO, Merry Christmas!"

Looking for Santa

This Christmas is going to be so fun, we are doing some fun activities all month that will be fun traditions to keep going with our kids. We wrapped all of our Christmas books and Kynlie gets to open one a  day, then we get to read the Christmas books. Our elf on the shelf Buddy returned after Thanksgiving and has been causing mischief around our house since then. He has ate some of Kynlie's potty candy, drew on all our pictures with dry erase marker, made a snow angel out of sugar, ate Kynlie's cupcake ornament on her tree in her room and sat around a lot of other silly places in our house.