Here Comes Santa Claus

Santa crashed our ward Christmas party on Saturday night, and boy did he make an impact! I have been wondering how Brielle would do when she saw him. Last year she was just curious and mildly amused. This year she started bawling the second she saw him. I think she somehow knew that I was going to force her to sit on his lap for a picture. She is no longer amused.
Breje and Trayson did better. Breje manged to jump up there and run off before Jody could even snap a picture (small sigh -- how is she already too old for this?) Trayson just climbed right up and rattled off a whole list. You can totally see him thinking hard to make sure he doesn't leave anything out! Kutter originally ran right up and got in line with all of the other kids and waited patiently for his turn. Apparently nobody actually told him what he was waiting in line for, because the poor kid nearly fell apart when he finally got up there! He finally did toughen-up (I think he saw the candy Santa was giving out) and agree to get in line with Brielle and I -- if he didn't have to actually sit on Santa's lap and if we'd go up there with him. He was still pretty unsure about the whole thing (maybe Brielle's complete meltdown had something to do with it?)

He finally pulled through and found a quick smile for a picture. Brielle, however, did not! (She did manage to peek through her tears real quick and snatch the goodie bag from Santa in the middle of her tantrum. That's my girl!)