Visiting Santa!

Kids look forward to this all year long! They dream about standing in line forever, getting to sit on the old man's lap, rehearsing their list of desired toys and walking away with their 9 millionth candy cane. Surely this traditional event could never disappoint...right?

Well lets review the Johnson's trip to Santa this year.

Walking into the building in a blizzard with the temperature -2 degrees, we picked a lovely day to visit Santa. Matt was pushing our gigantic stroller with the two boys loaded in. Matt hasn't used the stroller in a while, since loosing the bar that enables the car seat and Gus to sit in the front position it is now heavily weighed down in front with Cyrus sitting there and no longer turns very easily. Matt not knowing this tidbit of information accidentally ran over Bailey with the stroller. She was freezing and had her hands in her pockets and of course couldn't pull them out of her pockets quickly enough to break her fall. So her face and knees were the first thing to hit the deck! She has a big scrape across her nose, her knees are torn up, she is covered in mud--it was a great start to the event.

Then upon seeing Santa, Cy decides that he will have no part in this, no matter how hard we try to get him to cooperate at least just for a picture. Ellery surprisingly, becomes shy and mute apparently. Taitem has 145 things that she has to ask Santa for. And poor Bailey is still recovering from her ordeal. So here is our wonderful picture!