Lily sat on Santa's lap for the first time! I know, I know - she's nearly five years old - but we're guilty, we don't have the obligatory screaming infant on Santa's lap picture. Standing in line for that joyous moment was just never high on our list of holiday to-dos. Last year at Disney was her first time within 3 feet of the guy - even then she wouldn't sit on his lap. But this year on a quick stop at the mall for some Christmas gifts I couldn't get off Amazon, Santa was apparently calling to her. Lily marched right up to him, climbed into his lap, and told him she'd been extremely good this year. All smiles, no tears. Check that off her bucket list.
Lily had her last Christmas program at Appletree - next stop Kindergarten! As much as I hate to say it, I'm glad it's finally passed. You'd say this too if you'd been listening to her belt out Christmas tunes since Halloween.
Since Christmas fell on a weekend this year, we literally spent over a week celebrating. Our tradition is to celebrate with the Hoy side the weekend before and my side on Christmas Eve/Day. And now that my brother is married, we delayed our celebration with him and Jacqueline until the morning after. As always, the family time was plentiful, the food was delicious, and it was nice to finally have a WHITE Christmas.
We had the opportunity to make a quick trip to Grandma Wanda's on Christmas Eve.
And then Santa came!
Oh. And we got our new car just in time. Still not sure baby girl would fit in here....
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