pictures with santa?

guess who is missing? yes, you guested it! zella is missing from the photo with santa. this is the 3rd year that we (my girlfriend, kim, and her kiddo's, zachary and taylor) went to have the kids photo taken with santa. last year, we went 3 times to try to get zella to sit by santa. and she was having nothing to do with it. so this year, we talked about the santa picture all of the way to anthem. she knew what she was going to ask santa for... my little pony bus and some littlest pet shop toys. when we got there, all 3 kids got quiet. and needed some coaching. we decided not to pay for the photo and just talked to santa. they changed their package pricing and it started at 24.95$! i knew zella wasn't going to like it so i brought my camera along to take pictures. the people working at the santa shop, said that we could take pictures, we didn't have to pay to talk to santa. taylor was pretty brave and asked santa for something, zack also asked for some toys. and where was zella during all of this?...

yep! she high-tailed it out of the santa shop! here she is in mid-fleeing action...

we then went to see the big Christmas tree. it was huge! it is probably 3 or 4 stories tall and just beautiful. the kids had fun running around by the tree. somehow zella was able to snag a reindeer hat from the santa shop!

only two weeks til Christmas! we haven't done anything to get ready. yeah, we are on the ball

jill b