Our 6 year old son worked out that Santa was a farse this year. I’m sure that he had some help from friends at school. He asked us point blank and we were honest and told him that he was not real. In hind sight I think we should have played it up a little more but it all worked out ok.

A man in our ward at church heard that he didn’t believe and offered to come over as Santa to change his mind.  The only problem was that we were planning to be in Olympia.  I called my parents to see if we might be able to hook up a similar thing.  It turns out that my new uncle Steve had a suit and was excited to participate.

So we get to Olympia and there is a ton of snow and the Christmas Eve party that Liz and Steve were coming down to attend was cancelled.  Luckily they called on Christmas Eve and said they still wanted to come down just for us.  We were so excited.

We had to rush to get the kids in to bed but we managed.  They parked down the street so that they wouldn’t give anything away.  Liz came in and got their stockings that we had already stuffed and took them out to Steve.  So he came in and gave a few Ho Ho Ho’s and went back to Andy and Stuart’s room.  They hadn’t been in bed very long so they were still awake.

He went in and told them that he had hard time finding them in Pullman so he figured that they were at Grandma and Grandpa’s house.  He told Stuart that he was surprised he could see him since he had heard that Stuart didn’t believe in him anymore.  Stuart told him that he did believe.  He gave the kids their stockings and told them Merry Christmas! and told them not to tell anyone.  It was so cool.

I am so glad that they could come down.  It was so much fun.  The kids were so excited.  They were up late talking.  Kami went in and talked to Stuart a little bit and he was convinced.  I can’t express how much fun it was.  We couldn’t have done it without Steve and Liz.

Merry Christmas!!

Everyone has been writing about their snow adventures so I thought I’d jump in too.  It has been super cold in Pullman, hovering right around 10ºF.  So our snow has been very powdery.  Anyway, here are some pictures of it.

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