SANTA!!!

I was going to try and combine all our parties into one post, but there were too many pictures! On December 18th we had a party with Darren's family. We alternate every other year between having an adults only party and having a party with all the kids where SANTA comes to visit. This was a year for the Santa party and was SO much fun! It is always a little chaotic when we get together with the Webber's since there are so many of us, but we had a good time. It is great to have Santa give you your own personal visit! Beats standing in line at the mall!
Here are Logan and Rylee when Santa showed up! They lost interest in their food pretty quickly.

They were a little in awe of Santa! It is so fun at this age!Rylee was hilarious! She looked like she might cry from the combination of excitement and a little bit of fear. I don't think she took her eyes off him the whole time.
Logan hung on his every word. I think some of the big kids must have said something though because he kept saying that it was really just "someone in disguise. Not the real Santa." He kept trying to sneak back over to the food or up to the toy room. I don't think he wanted to waste time if it wasn't the REAL Santa, but by the end of the night, I think he was pretty convinced! Santa told them they all on the good list this year, and Logan was pretty relieved to hear that.

Santa always has the kids do little songs with him. Here they are doing the actions. My niece Raegan looks so cute doing them!

Rylee looking up at Santa

I love those big eyes!

Avery got to sit on Santa's lap first! Both my other kids cried when we put them on Santa's lap the first time. I think Logan did Ok for a bit and then cried. Rylee cried as soon as she saw Santa, but then again she cried for everyone! Avery could have sat there all day. She didn't care at all.

Cute Baby Avery and Santa

When the kids went up, they got a candy cane and the girls got some little mittens and the boys got hats. Rylee was so excited for her candy cane!!! She asked Santa for "Princess Stuff". She doesn't have anything specific - just as long as it is Princess associated, I guess.

I wasn't sure if Rylee would go for sitting on Santa's lap. She was excited about him, but still looked kind of nervous. But as soon as he called her name, she popped right up there and posed so cute for her picture. This is her first not crying picture with Santa! Way to go Rylee!!!

Logan knows how the Santa thing works and rattled off his list of 3 items as soon as he got a chance. He wants 1-a boxing set, 2-Hot Wheels BattleForce 5, and 3-a Darth Maul double sided "light saver". He has his list down pat and can list off all the items very quickly. At least they haven't changed!

What a handsome kid! My sister-in-law told him he was handsome over Thanksgiving and he said "Yeah. I have lots of shirts." Apparently he associates being handsome with the shirts he wears. What a funny kid!

At attempt of all 3 kids with Santa. Not such a great picture - I think there was a little too much going on.

One more try - it didn't get any better!

Next, we exchanged cousin presents. Avery got a cute little caterpillar mobile from one of Kim's kids. Here she is pretending to open it. Avery had Raegan and got her a cute doll that Rylee picked out.

Here is Rylee tearing into her present that I think was from Taylor. She gave Liam a football.

Rylee loves her new Fur real puppy!

Here is Logan opening his gift from Madi. He gave Mason some kind of space guy action figure.
Logan LOVED his Star Wars action figures! I think one was an assassin droid and one was Han Solo. Logan knew who they were right away, of course, even though he hadn't seen the movies. I think he played the video game with my brothers a couple times and is now Star Wars obsessed!

Avery and her cute toy!

Avery spent most of the night being passed around, but she didn't mind. She is very easy going and so happy. Darren's cousin, Tom, has 3 girls who are from the ages of around 14-18 and they loved her!

After the party, Darren and some of his brothers decided to make a 10 o'clock run to the new In-N-Out Burger in Draper. I took the kids to his brother's house since we were staying there that night. They were a little crazy from all the excitement. They almost always fall asleep in the car, but instead they were super hyper and Avery and Rylee both cried most of the way. Luckily, it wasn't too far! The next day, we hung out with Brian and Val for awhile and then visited our friend's the Lifferth's at their new house and stopped to see my family and Darren took my brother, Jeff, to lunch at Beto's (GROSS!) for his birthday. We had planned to stop and see the Willard Bay lights on our way home that night, but Rylee was asleep before we hit the freeway, and they were both asleep long before we got to the lights! I tried and tried to wake them up, but no luck! We decided we didn't want to pay to see the lights if they were asleep, so we would try again another day, but we never made it back. I was a little sad about that. Maybe next year.