A Family Tradition...

My dad looks like Santa.

So around this time of year he lets his beard grow, dresses up, gets rather jolly and allows children of all ages to sit on his lap stare at him in awe and declare boldly what they would like for Christmas.

He never takes money, he asks that whoever "hires" him donates to a charity or adopts some families for Christmas.

Santa's a giver...

naturally.

Because we have such a great Santa so readily available, we take the utmost advantage. We follow him to one of his Santa gigs and get a free picture.

There has to be some perks if Santa is your dad, right?

2007

Christmas with Caden...

2009

Rigg's first Santa visit... he seems thrilled... if you want to see more, click here.

2010

Last Christmas I captured the cutest shot of all time... if you want to see more, click here... and ignore the whale in the photos...

2011

This year I did get some nice shots... It was difficult, as Santa was talking to the boys the whole time. And Rigg kept putting his fingers in his mouth and all over his face. Ryder was trying to figure out what was going on...Pop, in a big red suit... Weird...

But my favorite is this one... talk about a "real" picture...

Merry Christmas!