Holiday Fun!

OKC has TONS of things to do in December. One of the fun things is one of the companies here, Devon, puts on Saturdays with Santa.  Since we had a free Saturday last week, we took advantage of it and went downtown!  It was FREEZING and every single family in OKC had the same idea, but we still had a great time.

They had Dasher and Dancer (or Prancer or one of the others), which were fun to see.  I might have said "Reindeer are real?"  I guess I knew they were real, I just had a brain fart (or at least that's what I'm telling myself.)

While torturing ourselves with the unbelievable cold, we made the kids take a group shot!

Back inside, we went to the different stations to meet Mrs. Claus.  Jace didn't really want to sit on her lap, but would give her a high five.

Jace and Mattie are so cute together. Holding hands!

This is my absolute favorite picture.  Can you tell her excitement at these costumed characters?

We drew pictures and "wrote" letters to Santa.

And made Santa beards!

And the most fun of the day was, of course, the little "Polar Express" that was a 2 minute drive around Devon's courtyard.  Haylie was NOT about to leave without riding this so we stood out in the freezing cold to wait our turn.

She got a little cold and only wanted Mr. Matt to hold her...while he was holding Ella.

Finally it was our turn on the train!  We didn't get to ride in the yellow one like H requested, but we settled with blue.

We would have waited to see Santa there, but it was a 4 hour wait. We went to Bass Pro and it was a 4 hour wait there too!  Deciding to chance Northpark Mall, we went and saw Santa in 20 minutes.  That's the kind of wait I'll take, thank you very much!  We had to wait on Santa to finish his lunch and ice cream...

but we got a decent picture once he was back on the clock.

Thanks Santa for the yummy candy!