christmas eve with scary santa

i am kind of over christmas. jude thinks its still going on, i mean we are currently in the process of making 50 paper toy soldier chains and its december 29th. i don't know why i give in.... he's so persistent. that and me being 9 months pregnant... well, it's enough to put me over the edge. however, i do need to finish documenting christmas properly and then i think i will break the news to jude that christmas is OVER!

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christmas eve is the same as it is every year, a day full of the gregory family. a movie during the day (tangled... loved) and then dinner at trevan's grandparents with a visit from santa claus and his wife. i honestly LOVE this day and look forward to it every year.

the tradition of santa coming to this christmas eve party is long standing and it has seen a number of santa's. when the last one retired/died trevan's grandma polly found this one and he came with a wife... possibly at the midvale mining cafe. i guess she thinks he's great. i mean, he did legally change his name to santa claus, that must account for something. i'm not so sure, he gives me the creeps, and i can't even get started on his wife. wow. trevan's grandma tells me she is the sweetest soul she has ever met. i can't get past her hair. you are with me, right?

jude whispered in my year when santa walked in that his beard was the wrong color. as soon as santa pulled a toy out of his bag labeled "jude", jude forgot all about that yellow beard and was all to happy to hop on his lap.

star wars NEVER disappoints in my household.

goobs could not believe her eyes when santa came in. she was so excited and when she opened her present the excitement was taken to a whole 'notha level.

(see what i am saying about santa's bride? she's eyeing greta like she's a christmas ham)

"BABEE.. SHOW!" is all greta could get out. rapunzel is a really hard word for a speech delayed 2 year old but she knew who she was and was very well pleased.

da fam.

TOP ROW: chelly, landon, cameron (available), brennan (available), ernie.

MIDDLE SECTION: jude, scary santa, gaga, santa's bride

BOTTOM ROW: ted, momo, polly

and this is my trevan... my own personal santa claus.

yaya, goobers, and rapunzie.

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as soon as the santa left the building jude was ready to go home. we told him we could leave @ 8:30 and he barely made it. jude knew what was in store for the next 12 hours and he was ret to go. we drove around for a bit listening to john denver and karen carpenter looking at lights and then pulled into our own little driveway with our own little lights.

jude has been asking about his christmas jammies since thanksgiving and he was so happy to finally have them in his arms. he and greta are the cutest christmas babies.

speaking of christmas babies....

daddie read stories to the kids while i finished some things up. so glad that they were both borderline sick and i could "help" my little sugarplums fall asleep.

happy christmas to all and to all a good night....