Santa on the Firetruck

Last Friday Santa came through our neighborhood on a firetruck! We got home about 7 and we were nervous that we missed him, seeing how they started at 6:30. After a few minutes, we heard the firetrucks. They were at the end of the main street. Robert and I decided to walk in that direction just in case we missed them on our street. As we got closer they turned down the other main street. We thought we would miss them! So we ran down a side street hoping to cut them off. We made it -whew! The kids got to see Santa and both firetrucks and ambulance. At that point we discovered they were heading back towards our house. We walked up another street and the kids got round 2. This time they got candy canes. At this point, we decided to head back to the house thinking they had not gone down our street. We did see Santa once more, but he was turning down the other part of our street. We actually did miss him on our street so we are glad we ran to the other part of the neighborhood.
Yes - we are those crazy parents that ran through the nieghborhood so our kids could see Santa on the firetruck!

You can kinda see the firetruck in the background.

Patiently waiting for Santa to come back...

Seton Christmas Extravaganza

On Tuesday, I saw a flyer a Mason's school about Santa visiting our local hospital via a firetruck. The flyer also said that there would be a nativity that included camels. Well, we decided to go. We got there 30 minutes after the start time and I guess we missed it. We did see the camels ~ which was cool ~ and we did see Santa and the firetrucks. They were all just leaving. To be honest, I can't blame them because it was cold!! Seriously - we all needed gloves and hats and the whole 9 yards.

On a side note ~ camels in central Texas ~ who knew?!?

It was a very short adventure.

Oh, before I forget. As Santa and the firetrucks were leaving, Autumn stood on the side and was waving away. It was so cute!! She had her hat on and her little mittens and was all bundled up. I could not get a Christmas Story out of my head. (You know, when she bundles up her son into the Michelin Man??)