Sledding and Santa

So remember in my last post when I said that snow had finally fallen? Well it came and left within a week (which I'm pretty happy about!) It's been dry ground here in MN for a while now, and I'm just hoping it stays that way until our flight out on xmas day . . . but knowing our luck we'll get a HUGE dump the night before we need to fly out!  

It's only a week until Christmas, YAYYY!! Which means we had to go get a Santa picture! They had this set up in the Mall of America with a really good Santa where he got down and played with the kids for the picture, so we thought that would be more cute than her just sitting on his lap . . . . we didn't quite make it to the playing on the ground stage . . . she had a meltdown!  Those pix are below.  

We took a few more snow pix of Harlow and Daddy sledding.  She wasn't too sure about it at first, but then was loving it on her own.  It must have reminded her of going down slides, since she's obsessed with them!

She's happy in this one!

not so happy in this one! haha poor kid!

Back to loving it again! She was clapping and laughing so hard, it was adorable!

Found her sleeping like this one night . . apparently my mom says I used to always sleep like this!

Now for Santa . . . These are the pix that Brandon took from behind the camera guy, so they're off center . . we need to take a pic of the one we bought but haven't gotten around to it yet.  Harlow tripped on some camera equipment right before it was her turn so she was crying and her face was all red, so it's not the best Santa pic, but it'll do.

Not the best one of me, but the dress she's wearing was sent from my parents! It is ADORABLE on her!

Just checking out Santa's room (Santa is hiding so that she won't freak out if he sees her)

Everything's good - still hasn't seen Santa yet, he crept in behind her!

Santa was wiping a tear away from when she fell!

doing well . . . no freak out yet

In this picture you can start seeing the meltdown begin . . . Harlow's wondering who the heck this bearded  guys is and Santa is starting to say "It's okay".  Brandon stopped taking pictures, but Courtney was taking video and she got the whole meltdown on tape! I need to put that up on youtube so you guys can see it.

That's it for this post.  We're just hanging out this week.  Brandon is done with finals and he's got 3 weeks off!!! He'll never get a break like that again until the end of his program so we're taking advantage of it and going to Seattle, Victoria and Phoenix! It'll be a fun Christmas, but a very busy one!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you!