Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Can You Spot The Imposter?!

This is only the second year (from what I can recollect) that my boys would sit on Santa's lap. So far this year they have been able to visit with him twice and within 12 hours of each other too! Aren't they lucky?!

On Friday night was our church's Christmas dinner/party. We ate and sang...and the big guy eventually came cruising in at the end. I laughed when I saw "Santa" and went to find Santa's significant other to harass her. (I can't tell you what I said because I try to run a PG blog here folks) Anyways, Santa read a Christmas story to the kids and then he was ready to have the kids sit on his lap.The boys were excited and eventually got into a decent single file line. I warned them not to knock over anyone smaller than them. (If the kid was at least their size or bigger, they are on their own) They sat on Santa's lap and I snapped away on the camera.
As we were walking out to the car that night I was asking the boys what they told Santa and said "Isn't that exciting that Santa was here?!"
Simon turns to me and says, "That wasn't Santa...that was Cliff! Davin told me he could see the strap on his beard!"
I tried not to laugh and didn't know how to recover.
What do I say? Do I lie? (yes...of course I lie!)

But then I thought of Home Alone when Kevin goes to see Santa. (Anyone remember this scene besides me?) Anyways, I began to spew that Santa can't be everywhere so he sends helpers. I don't think he believed me BUT fortunately for him the boys got another shot at Santa in the morning. "This better be good" I thought to myself..."and no beard straps!" Luke assured me he was "authentic!" To Santa's credit, he did have some rosy cheeks! :)

Saturday morning the boys were able to go to Luke's school for "Breakfast with Santa." I wasn't able to go because I was working my bootie off in a kettlebell class. I would have rather been eating pancakes and snuggling up to Santa!

So...can you find the real Santa...because the boys were convinced. All is good in the Hogue house---at least this Christmas. They still believe we have a direct line to the big man and I have had to call a few times. Unfortunately I always get his answering machine--but hopefully he gets the messages.
How many more years of innocence do I have left?? :)
Posted by Katie and Luke at 12:12 PM

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That Stop Wasn't On My Itinerary....

So the Hogue's made it to Florida for our first official family vacation. It was Sawyer's first plane ride....and Simon's first plane ride that he can remember. We were excited....the boys were stoked. We had everything we needed! But it seems that Sawyer packed something with him that wasn't on our checklist: a big case of pneumonia. Yes, the little fella made it almost one whole day in Florida before he started heading downhill fast. Our 2nd day in Orlando we were in the Urgent Care south of Cocoa Beach. (By the way, to see a doctor more quickly, it helps if you vomit all over the waiting room in front of the receptionist. Little tip for ya) After chest x-rays they advised us to head to the ER in Melbourne, where they eventually admitted him to the hospital. So, we had 3 night deluxe accommadations at the Holmes Regional Medical Center. The little whipper snapper was a trooper though! The nurses loved him, thankfully, and made us all feel right at home. We were going to send postcards out with pictures of the hospital since we spent 40% of our trip there...but they didn't have any. Imagine that!Hmmm.....maybe its something they should consider.

Florida 2008