New Years

Kaleb was given this hard puzzle to do, so we all worked on it and it took a week to do. Klara stayed up for the midnight New Year's horn blowing event.
Kaleb too, but he was cold.

Then on the 3rd, a friend of Kaleb's tried to shut the bathroom door and Kaleb's finger was in the hinge part of the door. This is what his finger looked like 4 days later. Much better!! Lots of epson salt soaks, ice, elevating, and more ice, neosporin...and yes, more ice. It doesn't appear broken and now (Fri) he is starting to use it more and more. Now that his finger is getting better, he has a 101 fever. Not a fun start to his 2010.

His ring finger on his right hand. Needless to say, school has been altered this week. However, he has been a trooper and I think he loves mommy babying him.

Finally, we took our kids to the zoo.

Petting zoo area.....turtle.

Lots of cute baby goats.

This was a dizzy time for me....

Kaleb got to feed the giraffe. He had just moved his hand here. This was a fun day. The kids were wiped out on the drive home. We also got to pet the sting rays and reindeer.....and lots of hand washing.

Christmas In Phoenix

Dex got a new toy.
Kaleb got a new puzzle dinosaur that I was being goofy with.

Kaleb got a toy kit.

Clif got a sweater.

Klara got princess stuff. We also have had a chance to see Granny. We will stay here until the New Year. Sadly, dad had to leave on a trip, but at least he got to hang out with us for a bit. We also got to see The Princess and the Frog. We will be buying that when it comes out. Very cute. Both kids loved it.....well, all of us did.

Christmas With The Cousins

The morning of the 25th, we (the dog too) headed south to see Clif's side of the family. We spent a lovely day and had great food. Later that night we all piled into Grandpa's truck and sang carols while looking at lights. We remembered to get all the cousins in once place for a group shot. Man how they are growing....and you would think we planned the clothes....jeans and red shirts, but no. Left to right; Ryne, Jonathan, Kaleb, Klara, Mackenna, Weston, Mikayla and Grayson.

Christmas Eve

We opened gifts on the 24th since we left early on the 25th. Klara is showing off her new hat.

Kaleb too.

Later that night, I led a xmas eve event at our church. Both kids were involved with the music part.

Here is the Jr Choir (Kaleb) singing their part. We didn't get a pic of Klara and her friend doing their song, but all the kids did great!!

2nd Big Snow Storm

Getting the kids to shovel. This was yesterdays storm that came in. 10" yesterday
The downside of having kids help shovel.....snow inside the garage.

Sledding time in the driveway.

This mornings surprise. Our backyard.

I would guess we got at least 14" of snow....so a white Christmas for us!!

Our Big Xmas Gift

Our little monkey.
Our xmas gift to us this year...Wii. We bought a big package on ebay this year for 4 people. I love this pic...check out Klara's hair. She was really into this game.

And now she's out. The game is worth every penny!!