The Year in Pictures: December

Chris Deluna with her dog, Kiwi, at the third annual Achieva Reindeer Trot Dec. 7, at Payne Park.

On Dec. 6 Ashton Bentley reads the letter he wrote to Santa before dropping it in the mailbox at Macy's. Macy's invited children from the Suncoast School for Innovative Studies to read their letters before it sent them to the North Pole.

Jolie Banks gets her face painted at St. Andrew United Church of Christ during its third annual Gulf Gate Festival Dec. 7.