Santa Clause

I was on top of it this year.  I took Jillian to meet Santa at Northpark on December 1st.  That's right, the 2nd day Santa was even available for photos.  So we show up at 10:30 thinking this will be a breeze.  Who else plans this far in advance and already has a Christmas outfit?  (Luckily Jillian got the MOST precious Christmas outfit from Nana's store over Thanksgiving, so we were ready.)  Oh, let me tell you there were TONS of kids there already.  I was number 65!  How can that be?  We were told maybe around noon we'd get a photo.  Not too bad.  So we walked around, carefully enjoyed Chick-fil-a for lunch, and went back around 11:45.  They were only on # 31!  But Santa's Helper said I could step in line anyways... thank goodness!

I had been prepping Jillian all morning that she would be meeting Santa and she'd sit on his lap all by herself like a big girl.  She pretended she understood and would shake her head in agreement, happy as can be. Well, look at how it turned out......

I think this picture is hilarious.  Does that make me a bad mommy?  I think photos like this are priceless.  Someone asked me if I was going to go back and re-meet Santa and hope for a better picture.  NO!!  I love this one!

Speaking of her outfit, we had a little photo shoot with Jill a few weekends ago trying to capture a great picture for our Christmas card.  I made the decision that since I was prego, and already in my head I think I'm enormous, that it would only be Jillian on the card this year.  

Here is the picture we decided to go with:

But what you didn't get to see is the rest of the outfit!  Check out that tutu.  Jeff is not really a fan of the tutu, but I remind him that this could be our only girl, so she's going to wear a tutu!