Santa Paws

We have been having record breaking colds here with beautiful blue sky but extremely cold temperatures for us. From the warmth of inside the house the blue sky looks tempting to go outside until you step out there and that wind hits you freezing you right to your bones. I have not been excited to haul out the Christmas decorations and put them up when it is so cold and we have decided not to put up a tree this year, there is just no room in our little house. So I had to do something to get in to the Christmas spirit so I decided to pack the 5 dogs and drag Jordana and Stephen to the mall to have our pictures taken with Santa!

Last week I was in the mall and saw the best Santa all set up for pictures, I found out that on Mondays from 6pm to 8pm you could bring your dog(s) or cat(s) in to have their picture taken. So that was what I decided I wanted to do this year. It is a bit of an adventure to take 5 dogs in to the mall, up stairs, past shoppers, and finally getting to Santa.

Santa and the photographer seemed a bit worried about having so many dogs in one pictures so we decided to start out small and take a picture with Jordana and Stephen with just 2 dogs. Everyone was set up, I said “look”, they did, and the picture was done. I was looking at the picture and Santa reached up to pet the dogs and that was too cute so I had them take that picture and that was the one we picked.

Jordana, Stephen, PITA, Slick, and Santa

Now it was time to take the picture with all the dogs, Jordana, and myself. Santa wanted to know how we were going to do this and we decided Santa would sit in his chair and we would put dogs on both sides, he could hold Echo, and the rest of us will be on the floor. The photographer said Kant could not be on the floor or she would not be in the picture so I grabbed the stool that Santa was sitting on in the first picture, put it in front of Santa and told Kant “paws up”, which worked. Stephen said “look”, they did, we smiled, and another picture done.

Slick, PITA, Echo, Hershey, Jordana, Kant, Traci with Santa

We got quite the gathering of people watching. Santa said this was the most dogs he had in a picture, they did so well. We were in and out with our pictures in less then twenty minutes.

Merry Christmas!