Went into grand central with the three youngest kids and met Aidan in there my eldest. Decided to see santa and have a photo taken for the year to which the other kids just did not want to do how embarrassing they said hehe....... Got in to the shopping centre and ran into some old friends from where we used to live they had a new friend with them we were introduced to her and we were told she was the lady who bought our old house from us last year hehe. It is wonderful to know when you sell a house that they are still as in love with it as the day they bought it she just could not stop talking about it hehe. She asked about the paint and bragged about how wonderful she thought the bathroom was etcc..... It was wonderful to hear actually because when we bought the house we bought it for 57 thousand then renovated it spent 7 to put in a new kitchen bathroom cupboard picture rails and paint it and sold it 3 years later for 152 thousand oh and we polished the floors to all with 6 kids living in it at the same time. Any way back on to the subject. We said good bye to them and merry chrissie etc and were of on our way again. Aidan asked if he could just pop into city beach to get his work hours for next week and asked could he take Nikita for a quick walk. yeah right he was using her as a what he calls a chick magnet the girls love how cute she is apparently so i excused myself to his group of female friends and kept going with our shopping and to see Santa........ We go into the shoe shop cause Corrie and Nikki ar ein need of new shoes and got the best little bargain on their shoes 2 pairs for under 25 dollars woohoo. Went out and off to Myer to visit santa. Nik was soooo excited she could not wait to see him this year and I thought I might actually get a photo of her with him this year. Shy was the first to run up to him she just loves him then corrie said red man wow those colours I was showing him he must be listeneing to hey hehe then Nikki looked and smiled until he looked and smiled back then straight out of santas sight and right behind her daddy shaking with fear hmmmmmmm it was kind of funny really but not really I tried to talk to her no she said still corrie was then a little hesitant as well until santa gave him a lolly pop and shy was over the moon. Santa even tried to give Nikki a llolly pop as well but she said noooooooooooooo. WOW my daughter knocking back sweets man she was scared any way to make a long story short she said she would go into the photo if dad did to so he hid behind her but no real smiles only from Shy who just can not wait for Christmas day HEHE any way the photo is below have a merry Christmas all  mwah from the Cook Clan