Christmas shopping and candy cane hunt!

This morning we headed out to Andrew's preschool where they do a breakfast with Santa and emporium shopping. Although we had to skip the breakfast with Santa we did get to do the emporium shopping. The kids look forward to this every year and we let them buy their grandparents gifts as well as gifts for their 7 cousins. And at only $1 a gift, momma likes it too!
The past two years they also had a reindeer come visit as well. Adriana and Joey were very excited about it but Andrew didn't want much to do with it. Here is Adriana holding onto him.

Adriana and Joey in the sleigh.

After leaving Andrew's school, we headed out to Faust Park for a candy cane hunt. This was our first year going and wasn't sure how it would be, but it was a lot of fun! They sell 350 tickets and have over 11,000 candy canes including some with prizes on them.
The kids getting ready for the hunt.

Let the hunt begin!

Joey having some fun!

The kids each scored a prize plus free tickets to ride the carousel. They had a great time and I think we found a new annual Christmas time activity!