Santa 2008

We visited Santa Claus tonight (12-11-08). Lukas had some idea of what we were doing. I asked him if we were going to see Santa and he replied "yes". He also said "Santa" a few times. We waited in line for a while, and when we got to the front Lukas wanted no more waiting. He wanted to see Santa NOW! It was all we could do to keep him from running up and joining the picture ahead of us. However, when it was actually our turn he started to get shy. He walked up with Daddy and stood in front of Santa, but when it came time to sit on his lap he wasn't a huge fan. So Eric stood off to the side (right out of the picture) and Lukas reached and cried and then looked at me and the camera (that's when they took the picture). This cycle was repeated several times. I wanted very badly to capture this interesting display of emotions on film, however my camera batteries chose that moment to die. :( Oh well, what do you do.

Here's this years photo with Santa. Keep in mind, while this photo looks like he's having a fairly ok time, he was screaming all around it....and Santa still has a huge smile on his face!