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| Ryder, Tate, Santa, Shiloh, Choice, and Juliann |
Today we had the chance to meet someone who donated not only to our family, but donates to each and every child in the world on an annual basis. I am talking of course of jolly old St. Nicholas, A.K.A...Santa Claus.
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| Ryder, Santa, Shiloh, Tate, Choice, and Juliann |
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Ryder, Tate, Santa, Shiloh, and Choice
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| Ryder, Tate, Santa, Shiloh, and Choice |
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Juliann and Morghen
While in Alaska we made it a priority to go the the North Pole. There were several things to see in this infamous town. Santa Claus' house was first on that list. |
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| Shiloh, Choice, Juliann, Tate, and Ryder |
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| Choice, Shiloh, Juliann, Tate, and Ryder |
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| Ryder, Shiloh, Choice and Tate |
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| Ryder, Shiloh, Tate, and Choice |
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| Tate, Ryder, Choice and Shiloh |
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Shiloh, Tate, Choice, and Ryder
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| Morghen, Shiloh, Ryder, Juliann, Tate, and Choice |
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| Morghen, Shiloh, Ryder, Juliann, Tate, and Choice |
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| Ryder, Tate, Shiloh, and Choice |
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On Santa's property is a barn that's home to his reindeer. We took time to visit with Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. Rudolph must have been on a summer vacation of his own because he wasn't home during our visit. (Either that or on my breakfast plate this morning).
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| Reindeer Sausage |
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| Tate, Ryder, Choice, and Shiloh |
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| Juliann and Morghen |
Check out the video below of the kids practicing their reindeer riding skills...
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| Ryder, Choice, Shiloh, and Tate |
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| Ryder, Choice, Shiloh, and Tate |
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Tate, Ryder, Choice, and Shiloh
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We had a blast checking out all of the names on Santa's NICE LIST... I'm not sure why I was surprised that none of our names appeared on that list. I suppose we need to continue our mission to BE BETTER.
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| Juliann, Choice, Tate, Shiloh, and Ryder |
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| Choice, Tate, Shiloh, and Ryder |
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| Morghen and Juliann |
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| Shiloh |
Inside the Claus' home you could find festive sweet treats like candy canes...
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| Morghen and Juliann |
And animals such as moose and polar bears...
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Tate, Shiloh, Choice, Ryder, and Juliann
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| Shiloh |
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| Shiloh and Tate |
The actual North POLE is a sight to see also...
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| Juliann, Ryder, Tate, Shiloh, Morghen, and Choice |
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| Juliann, Ryder, Tate, Shiloh, Morghen, and Choice |
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| Juliann, Ryder, Tate, Shiloh, Morghen, and Choice |
We even gave our best effort to Eskimo Training...
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| Morghen and Shiloh |
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| Morghen and Juliann |
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| Ryder, Tate, Choice, Juliann, and Shiloh |
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| Ryder, Tate, Choice, Juliann, and Shiloh |
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Ryder, Juliann, Tate, Shiloh, Choice, and Jason
This town was incredible! In large part, because they celebrate Christmas all year long. |
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Choice, Ryder, Juliann, Tate, Morghen, and Shiloh
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| Choice, Ryder, Juliann, Morghen, Shiloh, and Tate |
In honor of the town we were staying in for the night, and the fact we were staying in The Santa Claus suite at the North Pole Hotel...we celebrated a little Christmas in August. Santa even made another small donation to each of the kiddos in the middle of the night...
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| Choice, Tate, and Ryder |
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| Tate, Choice, Shiloh, and Ryder |
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| Choice |
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| Tate |
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| Shiloh |
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Choice, Ryder, and Tate
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Tate, Juliann, Choice, Ryder, and Shiloh
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The North Pole was a town full of cheer. We had an almost fairytale-like experience...with the exception of one memorable and note-worthy moment. We stopped by the North Pole Fire Department on our way out of town. We wanted to snag a photo of the kids in front of their department sign. We pulled to the side of the road and had the kids hop out quickly and run over to the sign for a picture. It only took 10 seconds or so before blood curdling screams came from all of them. What the heck??? BEES!!!!!!!!!
Two of the four of them had been stung by bees. As our terrible luck would have it, there was a hive smack dab in the middle of the flower bed in front of the fire department sign. I feel bad admitting this but Morghen and I were on the ground in tears laughing at the dramatic performance by all the kids. I don't blame them, nor was it an overreaction given the actual stings, but it was hysterical nonetheless. When I gathered my composure enough to console my aching children, we snapped these photos of poor Shiloh and Tate...
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| Shiloh and Juliann |
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Shiloh
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| Tate |
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Tate
Morghen didn't want Choice to feel left out so she did her best to add him to the injured list... :-) |
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| Choice, Morghen, and Tate |
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Morghen and Juliann
All in all, the North Pole was an amazing experience for us. Turns out, Santa is part of the Be Better Brigade. He even gave us a message to deliver to kids everywhere along our journey.
CLICK ON THE VIDEO BELOW AND LISTEN CLOSELY... |
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