Last Saturday morning was Breakfast with Santa at our ward. Since as a member of the primary presidency I was in charge of coordinating and executing this event, the whole morning was a blur. A successful blur, but a blur nonetheless.Breakfast with Santa is a tradition in our little ward, and every year the kids look forward to sitting on Santa's lap and getting a photo. Okay, usually my kids don't want to go anywhere near Santa's lap, but its more convenient and cheaper then going to the mall. Plus, there is breakfast!
Here are the photos.
First, the breakfast:
How does one mix up 25 lbs of Krusteaz pancake batter you may ask?
With one bishop, his paint mixer, and a 5 gallon bucket from Home Depot of course.
With one bishop, his paint mixer, and a 5 gallon bucket from Home Depot of course.
Seems like Pete and his pals were just serving up pancakes for the Fourth of July breakfast now doesn't it? Boy, time sure flies.
Jack and Harriet were a great help to me this morning - they were first in line for the food! (not pictured: Harriet at Jack's left)The twins like to help cook the pancakes as well, and through the power of nepotism, they get to!
Jack and the Red Spatula (sung to the tune of "Rudoph the Red Nosed Reindeer")
Harriet at the griddleAnd here's the Santa:
(actually our Santa comes with a Mrs. Claus - I cropped her out of a lot of the photos that I emailed to people. Don't tell her)
Harriet
Jack & Santa
I think this is the first year that Henry went up voluntarily and took a picture with Santa.He's either usually standing way off to one side, or being contained by someone who's sitting close to Santa. Go Henry!
And Jed, who was most doubtful that "Santa would know what Target to go to to get the Lego set I want"
And finally the whole family, struggling to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas (getting a good family photo, no?) I think by this point Mrs. Claus was exhausted and had fallen asleep. Shhh kids....My many thanks to everyone who helped out and made this event a well attended, wonderful success! (although I doubt any of them even read this blog....)
5 comments:
I want to move to your ward!! If I am ever in charge of primary or the activities committee, I want to do these activities! How fun!! I sure hope that that paint mixer was really clean before the bishop used it to mix up that batter! You'll have to check out our version of Mrs. Santa in a post that will come out next week on my blog. (Yes, I must confess I do a few posts at a time and then schedule them to come out at different times.)
I read your blog!
That family photo with Santa and his sleepy mrs. is awesome!
And, your bishop looks a little like the grinch as he's stirring up the Krusteez (maybe his posture...)
Our ward Santa this year was SO small & skinny! and his mustache kept getting stuck in his mouth. It was so funny.
I'm glad you got this party behind you! Now you can focus on your trips to Target :)
So Fun!!! Hey, mom check out my lbog!! Did you read my new posts yet??
harriet
Hi Heather! Just got your Christmas card this evening. It was so darling. What a beautiful family you have! Nice to see you have a blog too!
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