Once again this year, Santa and his elves happened to stop by Peter’s grandparents house right while Peter and his cousin were decorating the Christmas tree. Talk about being in the right place at the right time!

The elves were a little bit rough around the edges, but you would be too, if you had spent the last eleven months making toys for kids. The days before Christmas are a really busy time for Santa and his elves, as you could tell from the fact that several of the elves needed a shave.

Santa and Elves Shifty, Dicey, Studly, and Flasher along with “reindog” Rudolph made a visit to Peter’s grandparent’s house last year. These are very lucky grandchildren to have received personal Santa visits two years in a row. This year the boys had wrapped a present for Santa and carrots for Rudolph just in case they stopped by.

See our Santa 2004 photo album to view more pictures from the big event, or see last year’s Christmas 2003 photo album for last years Santa encounter.

In case anyone would like to see, here are the photos Peter took at the Heine family Christmas party this year. Peter started using the digital camera as soon as he arrived and continued to shoot pictures all night long.

These pictures are the party as seen through the eyes of a pre-schooler. I know I am a proud daddy, but I do have to say these pictures are pretty cool. Peter is very proud of them.