Breakfast With Santa

Today was a busy day. We woke up at 5:30 a.m. got ready and went to Kohl's to do some Christmas shopping. Then we headed to the mall for breakfast with Santa. Jaiden got to look in a glass ball and if she could see herself she was on the "nice" list. Whew! She was there :) She then got to pick out of Santa's bag and she picked out a little stuffed bear.

Then we headed to Boone, IA which is about 2 1/2 hours away to ride the Polar Express. Jaiden has been obsessed the the Polar Express movie for a couple years. It was really pretty neat. The kids wore their jammies, took an hour train ride to the North Pole, they read them the polar express book, sang Christmas Carols, we were served hot cocoa and cookies, and each kid got a bell off Santa's sleigh. It was just like the movie. She was so excited!

Then we drove back to Cedar Rapids, and did more Christmas shopping and grocery shopping and got home at 9 p.m. Needless to say it took Jaiden about 10 seconds to fall asleep tonight and it took Eric about 20 seconds :) I think we all had a blast today. Tomorrow we are going to have a little R & R.