Welcome to the little City of Duvall where every year the True Value Hardware Store offers free Santa Clause pictures!
I was so excited to get have the kids take their pictures with Santa that I wasn’t even hungry for lunch…which should have given me the hint that I was maybe a little over excited to see Santa myself and should have re-evaluated the Santa vs. little kids thing.
So we get to True Value and of course there is a line, but it was fairly quick about 15 minutes and of course the line comes with friendly Duvall neighbors to talk to which made the time go bye pretty quickly. In fact it went by so fast that when it was our turn Luke was frantically waving for me to stop talking with our neighbors midway through the line and come to the front of the line. So I sideways slid to the front of the line with Alyssa meanwhile noticing she had chocolate cookie and mocos on her face. So I took a baby wipe and wiped her face as we walked up to see Santa.
What was I thinking?! Was that the stupidest thing to do right before meeting Santa or what? Alyssa flung her head back and loudly complained and then took one look at Santa and started crying. Just great! To ease the scared cry, I sat with her next to Santa which helped just slightly.
Evan did a great job and Santa seemed to enjoy holding him, Alyssa on the other hand wasn’t so sure. Here’s the pictures Luke was able to snap off while trying to distract Alyssa away from Santa:
Here is a cuter picture of Alyssa in the Christmas dress our friend let us borrow:
And here’s a better one of Evan’s outfit…
