Presents

A little help from Cousin Hayleigh

Grandpa Randy doing his usually Christmas activity- helping Sam build something

Uncle Dave helps build transformers

Layna is excited about what Colin is opening

It's Christmas Morning- we even got to sleep in until almost 8.

Yes!  More hockey stuff, now we can play indoors

Trying out the new nerf gun

Present time

Family Time

We were able to have wonderful Christmas celebrations in Granite Falls and Rochester this year.  It is so fun to get together with our families.  But, wow how fast the time goes by.

Christmas in Rochester with Grandma Mary and Grandpa Randy

Dave's mom, and her two sons

Christmas Time in Granite Falls, with Grandma Mary Ann, Grandpa Tom, and Aunt Margie

Christmas Time in Granite Falls

A little quiet movie time with cousins before bed

These girls stole Grandpa's t-shrits for nightshirts again

Game time



Ellie and Mom on Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!

Ellie in her music program at OneTrueMedia.com

Check out Ellie in amongst all of the boys. She informed us she was standing between some boys who don't always behave. :)

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Sam in his music program at OneTrueMedia.com

Look for the boy in the little suit and tie. Yep he picked that out himself. Hope you enjoy his singing as much as we do.

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Proud Mom Moment

Today Ellie was  a server at our church for the 1st time.  In October you could get trained.  I mentioned it to her and of course she wanted to go.  I could tell she was a bit nervous today- what should  wear?  Can we be there by 4? (mass didn't start until 4:30).  An older boy was with her and Father of course gave cues so all went well.  She said she would be ready to do it again.  I'd love to show you a photo but thought it might be a little extreme to take a picture of her during church.  :)

The best day of my life, by Sam

So the last post was about skating.  As soon as we got on the ice, Sam began talking about hockey.  I said learn to skate first then we can talk about hockey.  Well we figured out we could go skating weekly right in town and even rent skates.  Ellie, Sam, and I have had a great time skating, but with that came Sam's not stop talking about hockey.  He even resorted to watching hours of hockey on You Tube, and asking if next year he could have a choice to play hockey instead of basketball.  Well as you can see below his wish came true and he is playing hockey.   He is having a great time, we are loving watching him, and his poor sister just wishes he would talk about something else!

On his way in to his first hockey practice

He is padded up and ready to play

Looking pretty good for day 1