Whose Been Naughty and Who has Been Nice

The girls and I headed for Forest Lake Wal-Mart today to do some Christmas shopping. It is great fun to shop with them - they have so many great ideas about what to get their mom and brothers. We started in the toys - mostly looking for them - then moved on to the food stuff - where you can always find something good to wrap up; and then back into electronics and then off to toys again to wrap up. The whole thing takes a couple of hours - and then is always capped off with a trip to McDs to eat and play.

We had a good day. Katie started the day as a pirate.

Santa Day

One of our holiday traditions has been the annual Imation kids Christmas breakfast - they do a really nice job of serving a great breakfast - catered by the Lake Elmo Inn and have photos w/ Santa, caricatures, decorating ornaments and other fun stuff. Today was no exception - but for the first time - we only had 5 of the 7; Daniel and Andrew opted to stay overnight w/ their friend Zach - so missed the festivities. We had a great breakfast, saw where daddy worked and played in his office and also had our picture taken with Santa - after that - we shopped for 2 hours for shoes - and bought 3 pairs of boots and 3 pairs of new tennis shoes for 3 little girls.