The Falabella Family: Dec 18, 2009

I know Thanksgiving seems like a long time ago now, but I'm trying to get caught up on all that we have done. We had a great long weekend over Thanksgiving. Udine has this thing against staying home for Thanksgiving because he hates sitting and watching football all day. (If it were soccer it would be a different story) We had to cancel our trip to San Diego this year because of his back, so we did a couple fun things in town for the break. On Thanksgiving morning we went to the zoo...one of our favorite spots to go as a family. They gave some of the animals pumpkins to eat and little treats like that. It was neat to see. We watched the elephant crush a 700 lb pumpkin and then eat it with her baby. We saw a lot of animals we don't see up real close very often like the tiger and gorilla. It was a lot of fun. After that we went to Matt and Jamie's house for lunch and met up with Grandma and Grandpa Becker there. Great food, great company, you couldn't ask for anything more! Grandpa and Grandma gave each of the kids a little advent calendar that has chocolate in each day they open. I think that was the highlight of their day! :) My boys didn't even know what to do with it, but once they were told and found out what it was all about they were VERY excited. The day after Thanksgiving we just chilled at home. It was a nice relaxing day. And on Saturday we went and had breakfast with Santa. We weren't sure what to expect, but it was great! The food was good and they had some crafts for the kids to do, face painting, a couple games, cookies to decorate. And they got to sit on Santa's lap. It was a wonderful way to end the weekend. Here are some pictures of the activities.

One of the crafts that they made: a magnet reindeer

Writing letters to Santa

Luca eating the craft instead of making it :)

The grinch came to say Hi

As well as the gingerbread man

Mia liked Mrs. Claus a little better than Santa, but not much. She did love the bag of goodies she gave her to sprinkle on the yard Christmas Eve so the reindeer will know to stop at our house though.