Santa visit

I really can't believe that the mall santa costs $20 bucks! So I googled Santa photos and found out that they have one in Old Town Springs like right around the corner for $5 bucks! So we decided to pick up Alyson and take her with us to see Santa. When we got there we found out that if you brought your own camera then it was only $2 bucks. Oh yeah thanks Santa!

Waiting our turn to get in. Lucas was saying Santa everytime he got a glimpse of him. 



As you can see that Zachary was in a mood even though in the car he was very excited to sit in Santa's lap and tell him what he wants for Christmas



Once we got in there Lucas wasn't really sure so Jason sat next to Santa with Lucas in his lap.



Zachary did not want to even get close to him! Much less sit in his lap! So the first couple of pictures were without him.




Right as soon as we were about to leave he turned to me and said "I'll sit up there, but not in his lap." Ha. Good Times. Good Times.

 Homemade goodness



I made this for Zachary's teacher, Mrs. Nakasato, for Christmas. I put it in a shadow box and put her name below the letter. Zachary drew her a picture and signed it. So I stuck in on the back with a school picture on it. He was really excited to give it to her. I forgot to get a finished picture of it, but atleast I got one.




There is the cutest morning Disney show called Timmy Time. Lucas just loves it so I got the idea to crochet him a doll to put in his stocking. 




This is Timmy from the show. I thought I did a pretty good job?



Putting up the Christmas tree

I love that Zachary is into putting the decorations up so I'm not doing it all by myself anymore! It was fun to get it all back out and seeing the reaction from Zachary on everything I pulled out....

When Zachary saw his stocking he of course put it on like a sock

Everybody needs some decoration

Yeah Christmas!

Taking the tree for a ride



Loved the lights before they got on the tree



Had to taste it atleast once



Zachary helping put the top on




Everybody had to be on the chair with me



The finished product except we forgot to take one without a flash.



I crocheted the snowflakes to go on the tree and I have to say it looks nice.



Trainmaster

I seriously am behind on my posts so I'm going to do a post over load just to catch up. Lucas really has taken to playing with the train as of late. He says choo-choo over and over again.



Even figured out he could put it back together

 



This is what happens to it after about 20 mins or so

 

And this is what all that cuteness does to my laptop when I walk away with it open...



Festival of Lights

Every year in Galveston they have The Festival of Lights. I've never been before partly because it is an hour and a half drive one way, but this year I just wanted a little extra cheer. That and Zachary loves lights as much as I do. They were equally excited since their Nana got to come along. We had a good time.

A bunch of Nutcrackers...us included..



Zachary attempting to do the same pose....




One camera loving boy and one who would rather be left alone..




The paddle wheel boat on the water with the big ole tree in the distance..




Some of these really were huge..




Family togetherness....




It was a 1 mile lighted walk and the weather was great!




Zachary thought the castle was cool and wanted to know if we could put one on our house...




The toy factory...if only presents were really free




Digging up some snowballs. It was really compacted down so had to really dig.




Hand sized snowman




Handed Lucas a snowball




Now what did I tell you..."No throwing snowballs!"
Check out Lucas in the background...looks like a familiar snowball




Me laughing after Lucas took a bite out of it and threw it on the ground. Luckily it wasn't yellow snow.




SNOW!



Mom lovingly got us a hotel so we could stay the night. So the next morning we went to see the beach.



He likes to write big...so what better than the beach to let him go at it




Definitely thought that was neat





Found this all by myself I did



I hope you all get to do some fun Christmas activities!!

Treating definitely...

I was kind of glad Halloween fell on a Sunday this year as it really limited the Halloween activities if you know what I mean. I went up to Zachary's class and helped them carve a pumpkin. It was nice to see the other kids he keeps talking about. Then on Thursday we went to our church building and did a trunk or treat.



They split them into boys and girls. They were pretty happy with their pumpkin.




We played a mummy game with toilet paper.




Count Dracula himself...with fake black hair. He really has the perfect cowlicks in the fron to pull it off..



He wouldn't keep his mouth closed pretty much all night...

 


Skeleton pj's I found on sale and figured why not. Most costumes are way too hot for down here and I get dual usage...oh yeah!




He wouldn't stand still for me to get a picture so I had to wrestle him to the ground.