Seeing Santa

Today we went to the mall to get Jacob's picture taken with Santa. Little did we know that it would be a two hour wait in line! Tim got in line and I took Jacob up to the food court and fed him lunch. Then we came down and stood in line and let Tim go get lunch. It was a pretty good plan sice we were in that line for a total of two hours! Jacob did really well until the end! He was ready to be out of the stroller so Tim took him out and walked around with him. You can click here to see all the picutes in Snapfish.

Forunately Jacob did not scream when we sat him on Santa's lap. I had my camera ready so I snapped picutes like crazy! We also bought the ones from the mall, but I got some god ones of him too so I could post them to the blog. Jacob was acting a little shy at first but hewarmed up pretty quickly.

The whole thing with Santa lasted less than five minutes! It just seems wrong to stand in line for two hours for five minutes! But I had to have a piture with Santa for Jacob's first Christmas. Next year we will just go a little sooner to avoid the long lines!

Fulcher Family Christmas Picture

I had my mother-in-law come over to help us take a family picute for our Christmas card this year. We must have snapped a 100 picutes to try and get a good one. This ended up being one that we used on the card. As you can imagine, it is hard to get an 11 monthold to sit still and get his piture taken.

We tried a couple of props in the process, but it worked out better in my head than in the pictuess.

The Santa hat? Forget it! Jacob wanted nothing to do with that hat being on his head! We could not take the picture fast enough! This is pretty much how all the Santa hast turned out! It was so funny.

I ended up cropping this one and used jsut his face for the Christmas card too. It was one of the only ones we got with the Santa Hat on his head. We got this picute by acident.

This was not a great picute, but I wanted to show you the huge wreath I made to match the Christmas tree. It turned out beautiful if I do say so myself! I had a lot of fun making it.

Yeah, this Santa hat picute did not turn out either!

Or this one....

Or this one! Like I said, out of a 100 pictues or so we only got a few really good ones! But that is all we needed to make our first family Christmas card! Merry Christmas everyone!

Getting Ready for Christmas

This year Chrismas has a whole new meaning with having a little one in the house. Everything is so exciting to Jacob, including getting ready for Christmas by decorating the house.

Jacob had to see everything. He was very curious about all the things we were taking out of boxes and putting up and out.

Tim put the Santa hat on Jacob. He was not all that sure about the Santa hat as you can see.

Jacob decided that the Sant hat looked better on Daddy!

But we tried again, and this time he was pretty funny! We played peek-a-boo with the Santa hat.

I think Jacob looks like one of Santa's helpers!

Of course in our house the dogs are always in the picture. We put this headband on the back of Max. He was not too sur aobut it!

This is a pretty pathetic face if I ever saw one! Poor Max!

Going to the Park to see Biscuit & Scraps

We went to the part this past weekend to see uncle Tom and Aunt Michelle and their "kids" Buscuit and Scraps.

It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed getting out of the house. Jacob looked so cute in his San Diego hat that we got him when we had our first family vaction.

Buscuit and Scraps were very sweet nad gentel with Jacob. He liked interacting with his puppy cousins.

Of course Jacob had to get some snuggle time with daddy too!