Bell Ringing

Every year one of our

Christmas Traditions is to go

Bell Ringing for the Salvation Army...

For the last few years,

Ted and Ceara have taken care of

booking the bell ringing spot

and give everyone an open invitation to

join in the fun!

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My kids were very excited and eagerly

waited over a month for the

day to arrive!

My kids love to dress appropriately

for festive functions...

so they dressed as little elves...

they wore

holiday clothes,

dyed their hair red and

added glitter to their noses!

And the elf hat topped it off...

James took his job of bell ringing

very seriously!

He stood up tall and rang the bell with a very

strait face.

He is too funny!

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Elsie and I had a little talk about

why we bell ring and

how its important to have

a giving heart...

so this year she

not only took her job seriously,

but she knew it was an important job!

I love this picture...

When we are all together,

you will know it..

by the sounds of laughter!

The kids would all be talking, laughing

and having a good time...

then someone would come

and drop money in the kettle...

and the kids would get silent,

only quickly saying

'Merry Christmas'

then hand out a little candy cain...

then as soon as the people walked away

the laughter would resume!

Our post was in the mall...

just down the hall from

Santa!

James saw Santa and said he wanted to

sit on his lap.

I said sure...

thinking he wouldn't really.

But that boy fooled me and marched right up to

Santa all by himself...

sat on his lap, got a candy cane

then walked back to me!

I was shocked!

I thought my kids were shy!?

Because I didn't think he would really sit on his lap,

I chose not to pay the $20 for a pix..

so I have no pix to show of it!

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James talked Ted into bringing him over

to Santa again...

but Santa was on break

so they just walked around instead.

And little

Miss Angelina just slept through it all...

how she slept through all those bells ringing

is beyond me!

What a fun afternoon...