Christmas 2010 Photos

Christmas Morning

Christmas Eve

Polar Express 2010

This year we went on the Polar Express with some friends, the Olsons. We had a great time as always. The boys always love the hot cocoa and cookies on the train as well as receiving the bell from Santa. This is definitely our last year riding the train for awhile -- we will likely do it one more time when Karlynn is a bit older.

Advent Sing

It was sweet and special to watch the boys sing together in the Peace Lutheran Preschool Advent Sing this year. Jake and I loved watching our boys. It really is an oddly humbling experience watching your young children sing on stage. Very precious. Micah was all fired-up and practiced the songs all morning before school. Caden, who I am sure knew the songs, froze up a bit in front of the crowd of parents packed into the chapel for the performance. Instead of singing he just starred back at everyone in the audience. He was, however, very excited to see Mommy, Daddy and Karlynn in the front pew!

Weekend with Matilda

Micah's Pre-K class takes turns taking care of Matilda the stuffed gorilla during the course of the year. Early December marked our weekend with Matilda, something that Micah took very seriously and was very excited about. Matilda helped us put up our Christmas tree this year, which was a special situation in and of itself. Thankfully the owners of our rental home store a Christmas tree in the garage and they were kind enough to let us use it this season. The boys picked out blue lights at the store (it actually turned out to be pretty cool looking) and we purchased a couple small sets of while, silver, blue and red ball ornaments since we do not yet have access to our own Christmas decorations (...we don't even know if they survived the tornado as all was stored in our attic :-/...). I think we will have to setup a small tree with blue light and said balls next year in honor of our Christmas spent in the rental. When all was said and done the boys enjoyed some candy canes (and Matilda did too, of course!).

Collection of Smiles

Karlynn has been full of smiles and sweetness lately. Here are some cute shots...

December 2010

November 2010