Merry Christmas!!

We hosted all of the Baird's and Kaufeld's at our house this year as I was working.

The kids scoping out their presents under the tree.

Looking at the Christmas carol book from Aunt Kim.

Stacy opening her game from David.

Amelia looking on as Samuel opened his Thomas remote train.

Samuel showing off some new clothes.

Amelia excited over her new remote control car... it later would not work and there would be tears.

Grandma got a new stock pot.

David got more CD's.

It was a wonderful weekend full of family, traditions, and good food.
Christmas #2 now complete.

The Christmas Puzzle

Both kids were part of the church Christmas program this year. It is always so cute to see the little ones sing.

Amelia got a bit of stage fright, but made it up there for the second song.

Samuel stood so nicely in the front row, ringing his jingle bells.

Sitting with friends before the show.

Family Christmas #1

This Thursday, we had our first of 3 Christmas celebrations. Since we can not be in Fergus at the same time as Jim and Cari, we had a dinner at our house to exchange presents and be together. These cousins always have a good and wild time together.

Grandpa doing his retelling of the Christmas story to the grandchildren. I love after the busyness of shopping, baking, cleaning, and preparing, the time when we can sit down, relax, and hear the wonderful story of Jesus birth.

Opening presents (a tractor set). As soon as it was handed too him, he had started.

Isaac showing off his glow dome.

Amelia with her strawberry shortcake doll (a present she "always wanted", even though it wasn't on her list. :))

A good time was had by all.
We were also blessed to have Aunt Kim (David's sister) here Thurs-Sat. and she watched all 4 kids while the adults (Jim, Cari, my parents, David and I ) went to see Away in the Basement: Church Basement Ladies play on Friday night. It was funny and another good night together.

Ah, Christmas Time

There is always so much going on this time of year. From Christmas parties, shopping, decorating, baking, and planning for family visits. We have been doing all of these things lately. There seems to be lots of extra events too. Today we went to a event at our local strip mall. It included face painting, balloon making, music, and of course visiting Santa. As you can see from the above pictures, Samuel was a bit timid, but did want to get a stuffed reindeer like Amelia got, so I held him and got my picture with Santa.

Amelia again stood patiently in line to get her face painted. I'm telling you this girl loves getting her face painted.

Samuel enjoyed the cookie decorating.

The formal pictures we got for FREE!!
Christmas time is so much fun!!

Is it the Camera or the Kids?

Last weekend we got our tree up. Overall, an artificial is so much easier. However David and I still have some "discussion" about positioning, lights, and fluffing. When it's all said and done it really does look nice though. I have thought with these pictures my point and shoot camera does not do it justice. I think my camera's abilities have declined... or maybe it's the operator.

Trying to get a nice pictures of the kids in front of the tree.

Some more tries after bath.

You'll have to wait till the Christmas cards to see which one I chose.