Friday, January 16, 2009

Pictures with Santa at the Mall

We had our annual picture with Santa at the West Gate Mall. I have heard that the Santa at Haywood mall is really good, but as I have thought back to all of our Santa pictures I can truly say that the Santa at West Gate Mall is still better than the Santa's of our first visits in Connecticut.
So here is a walk through the years of the good, the bad and the ugly Santas, we have seen them all! (as you can tell it is not in this order)!
1994 - Abigail
Our first visit with Santa, wow at the time we thought he was good! This was supposed to be a "good" Santa, well for the area. We drove 30 minutes to see this Santa, this is at Meriden Square Mall in Meriden, Connecticut.
1995 - Abigail
This was also at Meriden Square Mall. Not so good, the next year we would pick another mall that was supposed to have a better (older looking) Santa.
1996 - Abigail and Hannah
This was done at West Farms Mall in West Hartford, CT.
Wow... these are bad
1997 - Abigail and Hannah
Can you tell we moved to the Atlanta Area. This was taken at the Gwinnett Place Mall in
Duluth, Georgia. He was a great Santa!
1998 - Abigail and Hannah
This was also taken at Gwinnett Place Mall. He was a good looking Santa also. Much more realistic than the Connecticut Santas.
1999 - Abigail ( in the pearls), Hannah and Jonathan
This was taken at the Mall of Georgia in Buford, Georgia.
On a side note, Jonathan and Hannah were getting over the chicken pox at this time.
They had a few scabs still on their faces.
2000 - Abigail, Hannah and Jonathan
This was taken at the Mall of Georgia also.
This is our picture, I am not sure what happened to the professional picture.
Not sure what Hannah was doing, or what Abigail was mad at, but Jonathan is happy go lucky as usual.
2001- Abigail, Hannah and Jonathan
This was taken at Discover Mills in Lawrenceville/Duluth, GA.
The story behind these outfits is that I won a $1,000.00 gift certificate to the mall on opening day, some time in October. We were so blessed since we had 3 small children and 1 (Sarah) on the way. We decided that we would buy all the presents for others and the kids from Discover Mills that year and that I would splurge on these outfits. I wanted to buy the kids outfits from the Strasburg Lace Children's store, since I would never normally pay this much for 4 outfits for the kids. I bought 4 outfits, one for the 3 kids and one for Sarah who was due in Feb. I bought all the outfits a little big so we could get 2 years out of them. I think we got many more since they were passed down each year.
2002 - Abigail, Hannah, Jonathan and Sarah
Here are the outfits again.
This was taken at Discover Mills in Duluth, Georgia.
2003 - Abigail, Hannah, Jonathan and Sarah
This was taken at Westgate Mall here in Spartanburg.
Our first Christmas in South Carolina.
Abigail still fits into the Strasburg dress.
2004 - Abigail, Hannah, Jonathan and Sarah
This was taken after we went on the Polar Express.
It is a wonderful train ride in North Carolina where the kids get to live out the book. They ride the train, sing songs, drink cocoa and have cookies on the way to the North Pole. I recommend it for anyone who has not done it. It is well worth it to go at least once. The kids loved it!
2005 - Abigail, Hannah, Jonathan and Sarah
This was taken at Westgate Mall in Spartanburg, SC.
2006 - Abigail, Hannah, Jonathan and Sarah
Westgate Mall
2007 - Abigail, Hannah, Jonathan and Sarah
This was taken at Westgate Mall in Spartanburg.
Tyler had been in China for most of December, so we went to visit Santa and sent him a picture on his phone. He came home on the 22nd of December I believe.
Finally to this year
2008 - Abigail, Hannah, Jonathan and Sarah
These are the professional shots.
I will also include my shots that I got this year.
Showing Santa their wish lists.

2 comments:

Leigh said...

Oh man! I had no idea how much your kids looked alike as babies!! At first I though you'd made a mistake and that you meant Sarah instead of Abigail!! Then I realized there was no way that could be possible {given the year was 1995).

Cute pictures...I'm amazed that you can coordinate so many babies all at once with no screaming, crying faces! You've definitely got skill!

Sophie Morand said...

I love all those pictures. That is so funny to see the "old" ones.