Pancakes, Cookies, Santa and Magic Mountain

On December 21st, We started the day off with holiday pancakes. I love making pancakes and try to do it as many weekends as possible. Hudson loves it too! How cute is his bed head?!

After pancakes, we worked on our sugar cookies. Hudson loved it! 

Then we tortured Luc (and Nic) with an at home holiday photo shoot. haha. I so desperately wish I was good at taking pictures. I see so many amazing photos on social media and want similar ones of my kids, but I can't force my family to do professional photo shoots every week (although I secretly wish I could) so I sometimes attempt pictures myself. It usually just ends with me frustrated that I am not better at photo taking, but once some time has passed, even my bad photos are better than none at all. Maybe some day I will find some time to take a photography class or something, but for now, this is the best I can do. ;)

That night, we took the kids to Magic Mountain. It was a really cold and windy night so they cancelled the water show (poor Hudson had been really looking forward to it), but we still had fun walking around, looking at the light show, walking through the snowy winter wonderland, meeting Santa Claus and Hud had a blast running around in the snow during the "water show" ie the music played with lights and snow falling, but without the visual water show Hudson ran around like a maniac instead! haha. This time of year is so fun and I'm glad we have been able to make so many special memories with Hudson even with little brother in tow.