Pictures with Santa

So we wanted to take Maddox to get his picture taken with Santa at the mall. When we arrived at the booth where Santa was seated under this elaborately decorated fake Christmas tree we saw that in order to get pictures with Santa you had to buy a whole photo package. Well the cheapest package was $30!! I know!! What happened to the $5 polaroid you used to get? Needless to say Maddox did not get his picture taken with the mall Santa.

Instead, we had my step-dad Bob dress up like Santa and had the kids take pictures of them. While Bob played an extremely convincing Santa and did an excellent job of "Ho Ho Ho"-ing throughout the house, the kids were a little freaked by the whole thing -- Mattie more than Maddox.

I think this will be so fun every year to have Bob dress like Santa and take pictures (until they stop believing of course -- although, do we ever really stop believing??)