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and my kids could care less.

Seriously, what a letdown. I was SO anxious to see Cameron's excitement this year being that it is the first year that he REALLY gets it. We have been talking about feeding the reindeer and leaving milk and cookies out for Santa ALL.month.long. What went wrong you ask? Two words.

NO NAP.

Who knew a measily ole' nap would ruin my festive plans? We have been laying around the house pretty much all day finishing up wrapping gifts, and other miscellaneous things. Before I knew it, it was 5:30 pm and Nguyen had come home and it was time to get ready for our holiday dinner at his sisters house. We figured the no nap thing would be no big deal...he skips naps every once in a while and the world has yet to end.

After our lovely dinner and gift exchange we were headed home. Cameron was asleep within about 12 seconds of being in the car. No big deal. We live about three minutes away so surely he would wake right up as soon as we hit our driveway. Not so. As soon as the car was in park I was trying to wake him up with excitement in my voice... "Cameron, it's time to go put out the reindeer food and cookies for santa!" (insert crickets chirping sound here) "Oh and don't forget about the PRESENT you get to open tonight!!!" He wasn't budging. So Nguyen brought him in thinking he would wake up if we laid him down in the family room in front of the tree. Nope. He was O.U.T.

So I told Nguyen forget it, and made him do all of the cool and fun, festive stuff I was SO looking forward to Cameron participating in. I took pictures as photographic evidence. Enjoy.

Cameron dead asleep. Nguyen is forcing Cameron's hand into the bag of reindeer food.

Merry Christmas family and friends...

We love you all!

-The Phamily-

My best friend Tiffany recently got engaged and since the majority of us were in town for the holidays, we decided to take a trip to the Bridal salon to scope out some dresses.

We decided to embarrass Tiff along the way :)

Tiff's bridal consultant had a brief meeting with her about what she was looking for in a dress; what she loved, what she hated, etc...

HATED.

She felt like a mummy.

But she still had fun with it.


Definitely not.


Eh...not so much. I believe this was the dress that she felt made her look as if she were
"with child."


On to some winners...

You can't tell from this pic, but this gown is covered in lace and had beadwork throughout the entire dress. I think Tiff decided this was the style of dress she was going for, and we agreed it looked great on her.


The front of the dress with a sash we had the consultant grab so we could envision.

Wednesday was Cameron's Holiday party at school, so we got up and got dressed for school on a day that we normally wouldn't. I had to reassure Cam over and over again that he wasn't really going to school to learn...just for fun. He was cool with that explanation.

As soon as we got there they started loading the kids up on sugar. Oye!

It's like you can already see the sugar running violently through his veins.

I was able to snag him for a second so he could take a pic with his (newly red-headed) mom.



Shortly after, Teacher Tammy read "Twas' the night before Christmas."



And then....none other than the Jolly Old St. Nick stopped by. Cameron was really REALLY curious about where the Reindeer and sleigh were. He was tugging on my arm to go outside with him the entire time Santa was there. He really wanted to get a firsthand look at these magical creatures. He finally dropped it when I told him they were on the roof and would be scared if he tried to go look at them.


Then it was time for some one on one time with Santa and Cam was first in line to have a chat. It was almost as if he had rehearsed exactly what he was going to say in the five minutes prior to their meeting.



Santa asked what he wanted for Christmas and Cameron, with a giant booming voice declared, TWO dumptrucks and something else I can't remember...




Cheese!




And wouldn't you know that every other boy that climbed on Santa's lap also wanted TWO dumptrucks. Tonka is going to make a killing this year ;)