A Visit with Santa

"Abby, what did you do yesterday?"

"I went to the North Pole! And I rode a train and we saw Santa in his little cabin and we roasted marshmallows!"

We had a great time yesterday (at the recommendation of some friends) at a local Christmas Tree farm. They have a little train that took us into the woods...all the way to the North Pole! (You know, we are pretty far north up here.) We arrived at Santa's cabin and Abby was so excited to see him! She had to wait her turn to sit on his lap. (She did a good job waiting.) When it was her turn, she was so excited that, as she ran up to him, she was saying, "I want a princess suitcase." (She came up with that one on her own and has been asking for it for several weeks now.) Briton also got his turn on Santa's lap. The picture isn't very good, but he was all smiles.

We visited (along with our other train-mates) with Santa for a while and then stepped outside the cabin for hot chocolate and roasted marshmallows as we waited for the train to come pick us up again.

We had such a fun time and look forward to making this a family Christmas tradition!

on the train

she was so happy - this might be her first Santa picture?!?

first Christmas

I am the lone one without the beaked hat

Abby and her (very) hot chocolate