And now back to football.

Hmmm…

Hey, seriously though, please be safe on your holiday weekend!

Caption please.

There is just something about Santa.  When you are little you are terrified of the really large guy with a weird red suit and way too much white hair.  So you are mad at your parents for making you sit on the weird guy’s lap.  Then you get older and you find out he supplies you will presents once a year.  Now you love him.  Then you grow up a little more and find out everyone has been lying to you all your life and now you are mad at your parents again!  It seems like parents would get much farther if they started all the Santa conversations with “once upon a time” and then tell the kids that just like that Santa thing, you are either on the Naughty List or the Nice List and anything we give you as a celebration of Jesus’ birth will be from real people.  But no.  Let’s go with the elaborate scheme that automatically chalks one up against us.

I don’t understand.  Why do we put our kids through this obvious torture?  Tradition?  If it was tradition for me to punch your kid in the face and your kid didn’t like it would you keep putting your kid through that just because the pictures were funny?  Doubtful.  (Some of you are thinking deep down inside that it might just be worth it for those pictures.)  And really who wants to let the random dude that got cut from ZZ Top, missed out on Halloween and has to wait a couple more months to weird his costume?  Hey kids!  Let’s all get dressed up and go take pictures with the fat guy in red that rules an entire race of elves (that look an awful lot like you) and forces them to work year ’round for him in the North Pole Sweat Shop!  It’ll be great!

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Look at the faces of theses kids!  They aren’t hoping to be on the Nice List.  They are hoping to not be on the Dead List!  This year let’s give the kids a break!  Let them see the “beloved” Santa from a distance this year!

For those of you that still haven’t had enough of the faces, check out Sketchysantas.

Ok so I realize that many of you are probably tired of looking at all my pictures and reading the entire history of the Christian faith, but I still have one more for you.  It’s a good one.  I promise.  For the past couple weeks I have given you mostly the serious side of things.  Today, now that the trip is over and the pictures have all been sorted and the sleep has been caught, I wanted to show you the goofy side of the trip (at least the parts that we happened to get on camera)!  So get ready to laugh those pounds away (or giggle once or twice…whichever you prefer)!  Enjoy!