The kick-off to holiday festivities was an Enright family trip to the local Gaylord for Christmas photos of the grandkids in the cute outfits Mimi bought for them. Unfortunately, about 10,000 other people had the same idea that night. Just a tad crowded. The second picture cracks me up and you can see it was way past time for us to go and call it a night.
I had no idea what to expect from the Santa visit this year and so I was pleasantly surprised that it went well. Tate gave him a high-five, said "Hi Santa!," and then looked petrified at the photographers screaming at him to smile. Don't they realize that is the exact opposite way to get a kid to smile?
We also made the trek out to the train exhibit at North Park Mall. It did not disappoint, and we were all 3 pretty impressed. I think Tate said “Bye-bye, choo-choo” the entire drive home.
And this is a good representation of most pictures we try to take of our energetic little guy.
And our annual Christmas Eve tradition is dinner and an early “Spirit of Christmas” present with the Strzineks. It was fun to put both leaves in the dining room table, so that all 9 of us could fit. I even dusted off the old china for maybe its 5th time ever to be used.
Everyone joined in to decorate a gingerbread house and Christmas cookies. Wade had the neat idea to take them to the local fire station that night to spread a little holiday cheer to the poor guys and gals that had to work that night.
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Looks like a fun Christmas was had by all. We, too, have one more Christmas celebration left and it is quite confusing to Isaac who thinks the holidays are now over.
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