A Visit with Santa

6 Days before Christmas... We Decorated our Tree

8 Days to Christmas ... Write Letters to Santa

Day 5:  Letters to Santa

A few days ago... (while I was picking up a gift card for the Outback Gift Swap) I picked up a few "Letters" from Macys.  I love Macys for their "Million Reason to Believe" campaign that they do every holiday season. I love them even more for the money that they will donate (up to 1,000,000) to Make a Wish for every letter written.  The Believe site even has Classroom Activities, create your own letter, and many other goodies.   

We wrote our letters and headed to Macys at The Falls to mail them to Santa. 

10 Days before Christmas...

Watch a special Christmas movie with treats

Last night we watched Rudolph, ate cookies and drank hot chocolate. It was a nice way to end the evening. I let Ainsley put the cookies on the stone and she had a fit when I put them in the oven. The only way we could get her to calm down was to pull her table into the kitchen and have her help me make the hot chocolate. Her favorite part of that was putting all of the mini marshmallows in her mouth... not her cup.  After all the treats were made we sat down and watched Rudloph and The Cricket on the Hearth.  And thanks to Gina... watching Rudolph will never be the same.  We kept commenting about how right she was about how Santa, Rudolphs Dad, the head elf, and the other reindeer treated Rudolph and Herbie.  

Anyway... we seem to be doing very well with our countdown.  Kevin and I are both excited that this seems to be working out well for us.  I think after 14 years we might have finally figured it out.  :)          

11 Days Before Christmas...

The Outback Christmas Party

Well,  It's that time of year.  The Outback Christmas Party.  This year Tracy decided to have it at the Yacht Club near Jungle Island.  Because of the Outback Party we were not able to do any of our Holiday Items.  It dawned on me that we should probably add in these little things into next years countdown.  As soon as I got home from Ransom we got ready and headed out.  First stop Macys to pick up a gift card for the gift swap.  Then we had to drive out to Mildres to drop off Ainsley.  We ended up stopping at Wendys for dinner.  

The party was nice.  It was out on the water so we had an amazing view of Miami Beach.  

We also had a view of a building that looked very similar to Dexter's apartment.  And being near a dock with a ton of boats that could have been Dexter's boat it struck up some interesting "holiday" conversations.

After a glass of wine I was exhausted and unfortunately we had to leave early.