Santa!

Evelyn got to meet Santa tonight!

Grandma & Grandpa Rice took Daddy & Evelyn to Marquette to meet up with Mommy when she got done with work. We went out to celebrate Lara's birthday at The Border Grill and then headed back to NMU for the "Lighting of the Holidays" celebration.

Evelyn was VERY interested in all the people at the University Center. A dance school was performing to entertain the crowd waiting to see Mr. Kringle. What held Evelyn's attention the longest, of course, were the basic fluorescent lights in the ceiling, but at least she was entertained the whole time.

So, after waiting in line for a long time, we finally got up to see Santa Claus. As Murphy's Law would have it, as soon as Evelyn sat on Santa's lap, the battery in our digital camera ran out. NMU students were on hand to take Polaroid pictures, but the picture looked like they were about 3 miles away when they snapped the shot.

When we got out of line, we stopped by a table being run by the Golden Z club who were giving out books to all the children at the event. We picked out a cute story book that has a toy Santa for a cover.



Back at the stroller, we looked in our camera bag, and sure enough, there was another battery! After a quick check to see if it was charged, we got back in line to see Santa again. Lara got these shots of our little girl with the big guy. Thankfully, it was all grins both times. We are sure that Evelyn is on the top of Santa's good list.