Letters and a Visit to Santa

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  We had such a great time and are enjoying one more day of being together before Josh has to go back to work tomorrow.  I actually love the three day celebration when Christmas is on a weekend.  I have a few Christmas posts that I still need to post so I guess the blog is going to be Christmasy for a while yet.  
December is always such a whirlwind.  I have a million things I want to do, and it is always interesting to see how it plays out.  We were so busy this month and just ran from one thing to the next.   We ended up squeezing in letters and visiting Santa the week before Christmas for Family Home Evening

 I was pretty worried about writing letters to Santa right before Christmas as we were completely finished with Christmas shopping, but it is tradition!  I decided to run the risk.  I found this cute download for the boys to write their letters on. 

 McKay also wrote a special letter to Santa :)

 We headed to the magical mailbox at Maceys to put our letters in.

 On our way down the escalator Lincoln was standing on the crack that folds out into a stair and it catapulted him most of the way down the escalator.  It was so scary!  After I picked him up and held him he was shaking violently.  There were some very sweet people who worked in the mall that helped us out.   

 They had a huge sign up right in front of Santa that said you couldn't take pictures.  It was so lame!  You had to buy them from some company.  I took a picture of Santa from far away. 

 McKay was scared of Santa, but totally interested in him at the same time.  He wouldn't sit on his lap, but loved the gigantic candy cane that Santa gave him.

We took this picture after the visit to Santa (can you see the "big man" in the background?)  I think this might be Palmer's last year of belief.  I could tell he really struggled with it this year.  The last time we visited Santa at the mall was in 2008 (sad right!)  I am so glad we visited him this year.  We got to see him again a few days later at Josh's work party (he gave them seriously awesome kites...)