All I Want For Christmas

These photos are all I've wanted for Christmas for 5 years. Yes 5 years I've had to wait. You see, I only have 2 pictures of Grace with Santa. The first she was 8 months old and screaming and reaching for me. The other one she was 2 and was standing looking at Santa pointing to emphasize her point I believe.

Every year I've pleaded, begged and bribed to get her on the Jolly man's lap and this year she'd do it for Creighton. So on top of getting Grace on his lap, I managed to get Creighton there too. He's sleeping you'll notice. To make it even more perfect, there are no screaming children in the picture, they are in matching outfits and the to make the trifecta -- all are happy :).

Neilson really should have takena picture of me at this point because I was prancing I was so happy and my Christmas is complete. Yes you heard me, Christmas is this weekend in the Wahab household. Appropriately it is on the feast of St. Nicholas http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=38 since Santa is coming tonight. We emailed him several months ago and asked if he'd mind coming early this year for obvious reasons. He was happy to oblige.

We have quite a bit of celebrating this weekend to make it special. Last night we went to BLORA for nature in lights, 2.5 miles of lights to drive through. VERY COOL

This morning we were up at 6:15 to be ready and out the door by 7:45 for Breakfast with Santa at Applebee's put on by the Enlisted Spouse's Club. That is where I got my beloved photo.

This afternoon we will be feasting on shrimp, crab, new potatoes, garlic bread and salad, the traditional Christmas Eve food for 4 generations. Then we will spirit off to Mass and home for gift opening round one. Santa Clause is coming to town tonight so tomorrow morning we will continue the gift opening and have a quiet day to enjoy each other.