Santa Clause {or just his hat} is Coming to Town

So I'm pretty late on Christmas posts but I promise to try and be finished by the new year {or shortly after}. I've got other stuff to talk about also like scrappy projects and...well I guess that's actually all I can think of right now but I'm sure over the next week more things will come up. I wanted to share these fun pictures I took of the kids with Santa hats. I'm happy with the results but getting there was not so easy. Michael did great for the pictures on his own, he was actually interested in taking the pictures. Then I tried a couple with just Lydia which was hard because she kept taking the hat off so I started on pictures with both of them. I was *thiiis* close to having a great picture and then the camera wasn't working. My 13 year old brother decided that it would be a good idea to charge the already full battery - just in case it decided not to work anymore. :-/ I was a little frustrated as you can imagine. Got the battery back in the camera, tried again and Michael decided to pull that little stunt in the top picture. I guess he was trying to fix her hat but as you can see all he did was cover her face. Folks, this sent me into a bit of a breakdown. It's a little embarassing now because I look at the picture and think it's cute and laugh. But right then, in that moment I was beyond frustrated. Christmas was a shaky time for me and this was just one of those things that shook me. After wiping tears and consoling Michael I decided to give it another go. This time I had help from my stepmom so at least Michael didn't try pulling hats off of sissy. I think this will be a fun thing to do each year, esp when the children can better listen to my "look at mommy, put your hands down, keep your hat on and smile darn it!" directions. I showed my hubby these pictures through messenger and he LOVED them. It will be fun to send him some actual prints.