Breakfast With The Big Guy

It's been a busy week of trying to check all of the must do's off of my list. Christmas shopping is almost done, wrapping is almost done, cards were ordered, stuffed and mailed this week (on top of re-building my entire Christmas address list since I could not find my file anywhere), home made BBQ made and canned today and all ready to make the cookies for Santa this week. Doesn't sound like much, but I am honestly running on fumes right now!
With such a busy week, the kids and I still found time this weekend to drive up to Grandma Sue and Grandpa O's and then headed over to The Landing with Grandma, Auntie Julie and Emily to have breakfast with Santa.
I was simply in love with their decorations. I have been wanting to get some new decorations for our house but if we do find a house or land to build on in the near future, I don't want to have to move it all so I guess ogling at everyone elses cool decorations will have to do for now.The breakfast was yummy and the kids could not wait for the big guy to assume his position right here...
Once he finally took his throne, this little guy was on him like a magnet! Grant was absolutely in awe that the real Santa was there.Audrey wasn't quite as enthused about perching on his lolly lap so the only way to get a picture of her with him was if I held her. She wouldn't even sit on the knee closest to him. The further away, the better in her eyes!Not sure why Grant looks like he is sucking his thumb. Maybe he was coughing. Not sure but this was the best picture we got.
After the photos were taken, out came the bag of goodies, otherwise known as:Not necessarily the words I would have had printed on there, but who am I to question Santa?!If you can't tell from these pictures, Emily was mildly extremely excited that she received a stuffed animal from the Big Guy. Just what she wanted!Grant scored himself a cute little Santa puppy...right up his alley too!And once Tootie saw the other two with their prizes, she opted for a turn to pick her own toy as well.Granted, it was a quick grab with Grandma holding her all the while, but it was progress.We sure had a couple of happy kiddos on our hands on this very day!Not extremely cooperative in the group picture department though. Notice, my kids could not take their eyes off of Santa.
Oh wait! Almost a good shot...
There we go! My two cuties all dressed up and cheezy as can be.
I so very much love making memories with my two favorite kiddos!

Since the kids were all dressed up, I couldn't resist taking more pictures once we got back to Grandma and Grandpa's so keep your eyes peeled for more pic coming soon!

I ♥ Faces - Pets Only

Time to change things up again over at I ♥ Faces. This week, instead if highlighting human faces, they have decided to focus on the faces of our furry friends. Yes, this weeks photo challenge is Pets Only. I had a really difficult time choosing which photo I wanted to enter so I enlisted the expert photographic opinion of my 4 year old, Grant. I showed him my 3 favorites of our dog Roxy and he chose this picture of when she was just a pup. When I asked Grant why he thought this was the best one he said, "Because she's tiny." I guess that is as good of answer as any. If you'd like to see the two that didn't make the 4 year olds cut, click here.
I am sure there are going to be a ton of awesome entries of pets and animals of all kinds so make sure to scoot on over to www.iheartfaces.blogspot.com to check them out.

The two that didn't make the cut...

These are the two pet pictures that didn't make my 4 year old's I ♥ Faces photo challenge cut...

So, do you think he made a good choice??? If not, which would you have chosen.
Just curious :)