Santa Success!

Hooray!  I am overjoyed that we ended up with a beautiful picture with Santa this year.  And it involved absolutely no stress and took all of about 30 seconds.  Stu and I are like seasoned pros now.  We planned a few days in advance, determining what time Santa's line opened.  It worked out perfectly where we dropped the kids at Sunday School, stopped at Starbucks to use a coupon I'd earned, and then dropped Stu off to get in line.  I ran back to get the kids from Sunday School and we drove right to the mall from there.  We entered, with water spray bottle and hairbrush in hand.  We met Stu when he was third in line and by the time we'd erased all signs of "hat hair" from everyone, it was our turn.  The kids happily greeted Santa and hopped into his lap.  Ryann and Max immediately grinned and I called out to Adam to "smile" and he plastered on his grimace and SNAP went the photo.  Perfection!

Here is the shot with Santa from last year so you can compare how much they've grown!  We've had a picture with this same Santa with all of our children each year since December of 2005!