Merry Christmas!

We continued the December festivities with taking McKenna to see Santa. We were not sure how she would do considering her experience with St. Nick last year...it was not pretty! We kept showing her pictures of her friends sitting on Santa's lap and we'd ask her if she was ready to go see Santa and she'd respond with, "No thank you, I can't!" :) I don't know what it was...but I had to at least TRY to get a picture of her this year! So with TONS of bribes...off we went.

Even when leaving the house she was still saying, "I can't!" but nothin' was gonna stop this mama! I waited in the mall's line for about 45 minutes to an hour. Dave and McKenna walked around and looked at all the stores' Christmas decorations. They also watched a lot of boys and girls take their turn sitting with Santa...I think this was the key to victory this year! One by one, she saw them sit, smile, and get a candy cane! BINGO!!! When it was our turn, our big girl walked up to the chair, sat on Santa's lap, smiled, and then held out her hand to receive her reward! WE WERE SO HAPPY!!!!!...and RELIEVED!!!! Whew! Now, Mama could check that off her list ;o)


All dolled up ready to see Santa! McKenna showed off her sassiness while waiting in line. She had the others waiting cracking up!

Happy being with Daddy and happy being with Santa!

To pack in some more Christmas fun, we headed down to St. Augustine to enjoy more Christmas lights. We talked our good friends into coming with us and we all had a blast.

McK thought she was hot stuff sitting in Santa's chair. In FL we don't have snow, but we have snowmen that blow bubbles! McKenna and her buddies, Josh & Brielle, enjoy being together. They were very excited about riding the train to see the lights!


We got cool glasses to make the lights extra sparkly! After the train ride we headed in to "Santa's Workshop" for some karaoke and to make some ornaments!

Dave had to work at the firehouse Christmas Day, so the Burke family woke up Dec. 24th and celebrated Christmas morning together.
Everything was ready and waiting!


Some of the highlighted gifts of the morning!!!


McKenna isn't the only one that has enjoyed her presents!

Burke Family "Christmas morning" 2010!

We enjoyed our church's Christmas Eve service that night. We then headed over to our friends' house, Mark and Lauren Baughman, where we enjoyed sweet time with friends and yummy treats!