Santa Clause is in Town

Santa may be in town, but we have yet to see him.  But thats not say we haven't tried!  :)  Our first attempt was a trip to the mall on Saturday night.  What!?!?  Well, to my defense, Ash and Landon were ringing the Salvation Army bell outside of Macy's from 5-6 so I thought it would ne nice to make a night of it and have dinner in the food court and then  see Santa with the kids.  Ummmm...what was I  thinking!?  The place was packed, there were no tables in the food court, and when we finally snagged one, there were no chairs.  Ash had to walk around stealing them from other tables, while I stood guarding out table with Landon "helping" Ash, Lucy running wild (literally!) and Lynlee screaming to be let down.  Fun times.  After eating I had return to make at Belks.  So we hurried over there and while I made the return, Ash was chasing kids all over the store and under the clothes racks...








Thankfully the line to see Santa had shrunk considerably to what seemed to be not much of a line at all.  So we hurried and got in place.  Well the line you could see was short, but then there was the curtain with a whole other line that wound around.  Anyhow, we most definitely entertained everyone else waiting to see ole Santa.  My kids were playing chase and running around in circles around the whole set up.  Lynlee was turning around in circles and would decide to join in the game of chase, until she realized she couldn't see me and then would come running back to me in the line. 

















There was this balloon store right beside the line (of course) with these crazy walking animal balloons, that Ash thought would help keep our kids calm.  Ummm, what was he thinking!?  They just chased each other while holding on to the balloon wacking people in the face with the dang thing and fighting over who got to hold it.  Lynlee was pissed she didn't get her own and kept going over there and grabbing her own balloon and running off with it.  The salesman was pretty nice about it.  The whole scene had to be comical, but after what seemed like forever, we got what we came for...





Mission Accomplioshed!!??