I'm baaaack...and I know you've missed me

Instead of thrilling you all with my wit and humor over the holidays, I took a break from this here blog and spent two weeks with my family. Seems logical to me. But, the pictures and experiences from Peyton's 4th official Christmas are too adorbs to ignore, so I'll spend the next several days pleasing your eyes with her cuteness.

We of course took PK to see Santa at Kierland. Much like last year, she talked non-stop about her game plan for the meet and greet - how she was going to plop on his lap, and tell him exactly what she wanted for Christmas (a bike, a Flutterbye, and a wind up skating toy). Side note, I have no idea what she is talking about with the wind up skating toy. And on this, January 3, still have no clue. We had a lesson about how Santa doesn't bring everything you ask for, espcially if it isn't easily explained to mom and dad. I digress.

We stood in line for Mr. C and Peyton once again let her nerves take over and got more and more nervous the closer we got. In fact, she almost chickened out entirely. But, she managed to compose herself enough to sit on Santa's lap, although her expression shows just how aprehensive she was.

"I take it back. I don't need a bike that badly."

After that, we spent a few hours hanging out at Kierland, enjoying the "snow" and dreaming of where in the hell to find a wind up skating toy.