Holiday Lights

We bundled up and headed down to Makato to see the holiday lights.  

Santa was there!  Cooper and Carson were not interested, but Izzy wanted to talk to him.  She didn't really want to take a pic with him...

...until we suggested a Santa selfie.  This has to be one of the cutest pics of the season :)

The kids loved the lights.  I was freezing, but they were all troopers.  Carson kept saying 'preety wights' all night long.

After we walked through, we drove through.  The kids loved being out of their seats to get the best view.  Carson was our driver.

The next night, the kids went to meet 'our Santa.'  They wrote letters, and we'd been talking for weeks about tonight being the night.  That's part of the reason Cooper didn't want to talk to Santa the night before.  He's always had a weird thing with being scared of Santa....

We love our little Santa house.  All the kids had time to visit with Santa with only our family inside.  They all sat on his lap, too.  Izzy said she wants Santa to 'surprise' her.

I had to take this one quickly, Carson lasted about three seconds on his knee.

Cooper asked for a Nerf gun.  You know, because he needs another one.  Right.

Santa and I go way back :)  He thought I better get a picture with him, too.  He asked the kids if I'd been good this year.  Izzy said yes, and Cooper said no and couldn't stop laughing.

It's the most wonderful time of the year!!!