Fun, Fun at Christmas!!

We have been enjoying the last couple of weeks of Christmas fun!!! We have had a couple of super fun visitors and have enjoyed doing Christmasy things!!!

Vera Kate LOvES to visit Meme and see Claus!!

Last Monday night was the Hernando Christmas parade! It was amazing and long! Brian and I really didnt know what to expect since this was our first year to attend the parade! So we thought we will just go see the parade and then come home and eat and do whatever. Well as soon as we arrived we realized this was a little bigger deal than we thought. Every one in Hernando and the surrounding cities came out for the event and there were like a million parade entries! Well at least next year we will be more prepared! Thanks to the Dalys (Vance, Kim, and Aaron) for letting us sit with them and enjoy their chairs and hot cocoa they brought! They are Hernando experts! Thank goodness for friends that help us out!! HAHA!!!

Getting ready for the parade!

Waving to Claus!! Btw... Vera Kate calls Santa Claus... Claus!

On Tuesday we had a special visitor come!! Special K!!! We always LOVE when she get done with exams and can come stay and play with us!!! We had a blast and Vera Kate LOVED having a playmate!!

Getting ready to make our gingerbread house!!

Watching dad intently!!

Vera Kate did a great job of putting the little candies on the gingerbread house!! She was very precise and loved being able to do it herself!!

Our gingerbread house!!

Wednesday I needed to finish up some shopping so we ventured to Memphis! Thank goodness we got done and at the end of the day I told Kayla that we should go to Bass Pro and see how Vera Kate does with Santa aka Claus!

So we get to Bass Pro and all is well! We even get to where the line starts and tell Vera Kate that Claus is up there and ask her if she sees him! She of course does and kinda starts doing a little happy/excited to be here dance! I think to myself... hmmm.. this may go better than expected! Well.... the closer we got the more Vera Kate started backing up and reaching for us... UP... UP.. UP she kept saying! HA! Well you probably know how it turned out....

BEFORE

AFTER....

Hey! At least we have the memory!! We will look back at this pic and laugh in the future! Sweet Kayla took one for the team and will always be in our Santa Claus picture collection!!! Anyways, Claus obviously is more fun from a distance!!!