winner?

i entered this photo in a contest for disneyfamily.com in their "scared of santa" category. this was our first christmas in arkansas and sau had a christmas celebration. somehow i ended up taking kalei alone. the point of our going was to have her picture taken with santa and she was excited as we stood in line. she happily pointed to the "man in red." then we got to the front of the line and i handed her to santa and stepped away. i had told her how things were going to go down, but apparently she had not fully realized this would be part of the bargain. she immediately began crying and reaching for me, and santa tried to hand her back to me! no way, jose! i'm sure this santa was a volunteer, but i gave him a look that let him know to suck it up until i got my photo. i took my picture and they took theirs, THEN santa's elf handed kalei a candy cane. she immediately cheered and was all smiles to santa, his elf, the christmas tree, the people walking by, etc. looking at this picture now makes me laugh, but at the time it wasn't so funny. feel free to vote for our picture! it's titled "good times."