Monday, December 28, 2009

Santa Claus Collection '09

Here are a few photos of the Santa Claus collection for Christmas 2009:




























Thursday, May 28, 2009

Summertime Santa

Ever wonder what Santa Claus does in the summer?

Well, I thought that might be a possible topic of interest for a Blog Post. After a search I found the following site which covers this very topic. These people in Finland seem to know not only how Santa Claus occupies his summer, but also every other season of the year. They also have a number of other topics and links of interest and value. Please check out this web site for Rovaniemi, Finland. Use the following link to go directly to Santa’s summer site.

Summertime Santa

Please let me know if you have any other information on how Santa spends his summer!

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Enjoy the Blog and have a great summer!

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Christmas Holiday Photo




Here is the correct Christmas Holiday photo! I knew I had a photo of the grand baby wearing a Santa hat. This is the picture I've been looking for. Here is our future Santa Claus trainee. This is Kira at Christmas 2007. This picture was taken during one of those marathon sessions of opening the presents. Traditionally we do this on Christmas Eve night at our house. All of the gifts are stacked under the tree and then distributed to each person who has presents. It always turns into a marathon session since there are so many people giving so many gifts to so many people. We have gone through several different attempts at downsizing, both in the number of gifts given and the size of each individual gift. We were running out of storage space under the tree and it just took too long to open all the gifts. We still have some room for improvement in the time issue. The problem of time elapsed for opening the presents is complicated by the tradition of each person opening one present at a time and the presents are opened in order beginning with the youngest and ending with the oldest. That means Kira goes first and I bring up the end. This whole process starts again and so goes the marathon gift opening until all gifts are opened. Then the marathon cleanup session begins. Oh well, so goes our Christmas holiday. We still enjoy it! I hope you enjoy the picture and this glimpse of one of our holiday traditions.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Oops! Wrong Holiday


Wait a minute! This isn't a Christmas picture. This is one of those Haloween pictures. This is a good picture of the Grand Baby though. I believe this is a little witch on her way out in search of the Great Pumpkin. . . or maybe she is just in search of a few treats on a Trick or Treat Quest.
Oh well. Enjoy the picture. I'll have to go in search of the Christmas pictures so I can get back to the business of Santa Claus and my favorite Christmas traditions.