The Last Santa Letter

Here is this year's letter from St. Nicholas.  The paper doesn't fit on the scanner, so we had to take pictures.  It didn't turn out great so if you'd rather, you can read it typed up.  (Facebookers, if the links don't show up in this post you can go to ourrandomdays.com)

For those not familiar with the letters, here's a quick explanation.  Daniel Elf is the head elf, Phil is a Polar Bear, Ms. Alice a penguin, and QWERTs are the Quick Wrapping Efficient Robot Team.

This is the 11th letter the boys received and will be the last.  I (Steve) began them in 2001 when Joe was 3 and Tim was 6 months.  They were a lot of fun to do and we would re-read the older letters as it got close to Christmas.

The boys have grown up enough they still enjoy them but it's not the same as when they were little and the letters were a real treat they looked forward to finding on Christmas morning.  It's nice that they appreciate that I write them and Holly illustrates them, but it feels like it's time to be done with this tradition.

If anyone has read this far and is interested, here is the original letter from 2001 where Daniel Elf got stuck in the train's smoke stack for the first time.  There is a little water damage on the original copy, but Holly patched it up this year so we scanned it in before something like that happened again.