We decided last minute to take the kids down to the Americana Brand Mall in Glendale. I read online that they make it snow at certain times, there's caroler's, a cool Santa set up and one of the largest live Christmas tree's in U.S. The Buntings were able to go and last minute the Nichols met us there too. It was so fun to just walk around and enjoy being with our friends and all of our kids running around playing. David took family pictures of all of us in front of the water fountain. He captured some adorable pictures of Jack Jack sitting in the flowers.
The kids just ran around every where in the bark and had a blast.
I had bought this new double stroller at JM's 50% off and couldn't wait to use it. It was awesome to have!!
Daddy with the kids
My cutie pie Jack and I
This BEAUTIFUL tree was from Northern California this year.
Clara seen some other kids with balloons and would not stop asking for one, so Mike found the balloon guy and bought her 2.
Katy, Me, and Lindsey, us girls have so much fun together.
So when we first got there, I headed straight over to get in line for Santa bc that's one of the main reasons I wanted to go. Well the line was was pretty long, but not bad, so I stood in line for about 15 minutes and then they announced that Santa was taking a hour break, so that meant I would have waited for almost 2 hours to see Santa. And then Clara started freaking out bc she had to pee. So I decided to skip Santa and I was so bummed out about it. Then we met up with everyone else, walked around, and then went and ate. It was 10 minutes till 10pm and so I zoomed over to Santa's workshop to see about getting in line again, and it already had the closed sign up and there were just 2 other couples waiting to get in. So I begged the security guard to let us in and she did!! We were the very LAST people to see Santa. I was sooooo excited and happy. Way happier than the kids were. Jack freaked out and as soon as I picked him up, he started smiling at the elf girl and flirting. He's too funny. Clara was so excited to see Santa, she got pretty shy with him but was happy to see Santa. And now she talks about Santa all the time!!
When we first were standing in line for Santa, they made it snow. It was so pretty looking but Katy said it tasted really bad and burned her eyes, lol.
We went to eat at Islands after hanging out. We are quite a large group all together, but our kids are a blast!!
