Santa

It's tradition that we always go to Druber's in Newton to see "THE REAL SANTA"--- I mean he does know the kids' names, the parents' names, and certain things about us that he could only know if he was THE REAL SANTA.....not one of the "helper" Santa's that are around town!

Who knows what Santa was telling these big boys---but it must have been FUNNY!

Tyler-almost 9    Jeremy--almost 11

Jaden is growing his hair out right now (not in the picture), but this picture makes we want him to CUT HIS HAIR!!!  It's so cute short and spiked!

Jaden-6    Sydney-7

Jaden is sort of "stuck in the middle" of the cousins.  He wants to play with the "big boys", but yet he also wants to play with the "little kids" (which happen to be girls!) 

So, he kind of goes back and forth. 

Girl Cousins!

Syd--7   Paige-5   Taylor-5

She is so intently listening! 

What did they ask Santa for??

Hmmm.....good question!  We didn't see Santa til Christmas Eve. 

 They just made a list this year and didn't specifically ASK Santa for anything. 

We didn't really talk about Santa much this year! 

Jaden did ask for DRUMS and we did tell him we would not get him drums so he'd have to ask Santa!!! 

AND GUESS WHAT-----

Santa brought Jaden DRUMS!  Well sort of.....

Santa brought all the kids BAND HERO!!!

Drums for Jaden, Guitar for Tyler, and a microphone for Paige!

HOW SMART!!  And how FUN!!!!

Paige was less than thrilled at first!  The microphone wasn't so cool because she couldn't read the lyrics on the TV---so how could she sing!!!?  But, have no fear...give her a few days to learn the songs and she was SUPER EXCITED about her microphone!!!

Santa had no idea the WHOLE family would like Band Hero so much!

I think every night after Christmas, til the kids went back to school we played it!

Mom and Dad were having "sing-offs"--and mom always wins!!!

Thanks Santa!  Thanks Jaden for wanting drums this year!!!