Ho, ho, ho!

     It's only November 9th, but the Christmas season is in full swing at our house.  Why even today, we made our now annual trip to go have a photo of Madison taken with Santa at the Mall of Georgia.  Mommy dressed her up in a wonderful Christmas outfit for the photograph, and Daddy thought ahead to bring his camera (that's what's called "foreshadowing").

     We got there around eleven, and there was hardly any line at all.  That's why we like to do the Santa photo early!  In fact, when Madison came up to see Santa, there was nobody behind her and only one family in front of her.

     She couldn't wait.  She rushed up to jump in the chair with Santa, who was very nice to her.  Mommy and Daddy liked this Santa - we saw him walking the mall earlier.  He was very quick to compliment Madison on her pretty outfit.  Ho, ho, ho!

     On a scale of 1 to 10, we'd give Santa a perfect 10.  On the scale of 1 to 10 for the photographers, I'd probably give them a disappointing 2.  They snapped one photo, and I feel like we were lucky Madison was looking somewhere near the camera at the time.  They said that was the good shot, and were ready to move us along quickly, despite the fact that there was nobody else in line behind us.  One snap of the camera and it's time to move along... I guess they were practicing to see how fast they could move people through for when it got really busy later on...

     Fortunately, Daddy brought along his camera and snapped a few shots "for insurance."  Thankfully, we did get a good photo with Santa on our camera... but you aren't going to see it yet!  Nope:  you'll have to wait until you get our Christmas card!

     Madison has a great Santa impersonation by the way:  she'll put her hands across her belly and say it as low as she can:  "Ho, ho, ho!"

     Anyway, after our adventure at the North Pole Embassy, we did some shopping and after a stroll around the mall, we can safely say it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!  In fact, tonight is a Mommy and Daddy date night - we're planning on going to see "A Christmas Carol" at the theater.  We'll let you know how it is, but until then a very Merry Christmas to you.  That is, unless you're one of those mall photographers today, in which case:  Bah, humbug!