Whenever our family finishes reading one of the standard works we take the kids out to dinner. We rarely go out to eat as a family and so it is a special treat. We went after we finished reading the New Testament and not to long ago we finished reading the Book of Mormon as a family. Kefford had received a couple of gift cards to Applebees and so that is where we went a couple of days before Christmas to celebrate our reading. Although now that I think about it I don't think we told the kids why we were going out, maybe Kefford did and I was not paying attention that does happen.
When we came in we were being seated and we passed by a table that had a couple sitting there eating who were dressed up as Santa and Mrs Claus. It was interesting. Later as we were eating, the man dressed as Santa started coming around to all the tables that had kids and was passing out candy canes. He came to our table and asked our kids if they were good kids and then gave them each a candy cane. It was strange but it was Christmas time so ok. But then he went to Kenedy and it got a little weird. He gave her a candy and then asked her if she wanted to pull his beard. The look on her face was the best ever. She did not know what to do and just told him "that's ok". It was pretty funny and gave us something to laugh about.
