SANTA!

Today was the Adoptive Families Christmas Potluck at the Nebraska Children's Home.  It was moved up an hour due to when Santa could come and also because of the Big 10 Championship (which, during this writing, isn't a very good game to watch!).

We went and there really weren't very many people there.  Kind of disappointing.  And because it was earlier, food was really not on people's minds yet.  Santa got there at 4:00.  It was neat because he greeted and held several kids.  Dawson, of course, went right to him and even had a good smile for some pictures!  Meighan even got a hug before he sat down to talk to the kids.

Once he sat down, he started off by saying that it's important to remember that Christmas isn't about him.  It's really about family and Jesus.  He proceeded to tell the kids the story of "The Night Before Christmas" and brought kids up to sit on his lap as he told the story.  When he was done, then it was time to have kids tell him their wishes.

After the first couple kids, Dawson came right in and sat on his lap.  Then Santa asked if there were others that needed to be in the picture.  We told Meighan to get up there, too.  We got pictures and video of her and Dawson and then it was her turn to tell Santa what she wanted.

Then we went back and ate a little bit but she had to keep leaving to go watch the kids with Santa.  Our case worker told me later that she was just very interested in what was going on.  She also got him to go outside when Santa was leaving and had told them to watch out the windows for the sleigh in the sky as he went back to the North Pole.

Before very many people got there, we had our picture taken in front of the neat Christmas trees in the rotunda of the lobby.  Here's those and other pictures.