First of all, I would like to send out a Big THANK YOU to everyone that came out to participate in the Santa Event yesterday at Trailside Coffee. We managed to raise $413 and collect 26 toys for the area Toy Lift. Another big THANK YOU goes out to Marcia McGee at Trailside Coffee for hosting such a great event, Andrea Sarate for helping us pull this together and my neighbor and helper elf, Hannah, for her behind the scenes work! We managed to make the event bigger than 2009!! One of the best moments of the day was taking my daughter with me to drop off the gifts and money… The volunteers at the Toy Lift center were so excited to receive this donation and it was very heart warming. They were most excited for the money, so they could go “buy more toys!!”
Pictures w/Santa is by far one of my favorite events of the year. I love seeing all the children w/Santa.. some are so excited to run up and tell Santa what they want for Christmas, some are scared to death of him, some really don’t know what to think and some spend a little extra time warming up to him. It is somewhat predictable… the 18-30 month olds typically cry and the K – 2nd grade set love him! Here are some of my favorites from the day:






Quite possibly my favorite!

Though.. it is a toss up b/t the last one and this one!



And, of course, my gals! I was so proud Josie decided that “Santa Not Scary.”
