For Christmas this year, I crocheted beanie hats for all of the guys. Nathan opened his early, because he and Brooke were spending Christmas in Indiana at her families. So, he gotPhotoShopped into the picture without a body. Left to Right: Nathan, Jay, Aaron, Dad, Jesse and Ryan.




We took a 'serious look' picture too. Pretty funny.








Liberty got her new bike from Santa. She reminded us every day that Santa was bringing her a bike because she asked him too. She tried it out on Christmas day, because the weather was pretty decent. Jay took her out in the driveway in his slippers and stayed along side of her until she started picking up speed and panicked. Jay caught up with her (did I mention he had slippers on) , grab her as she was about to wipe out and cushioned her fall while his slippers went flying. I had to superglue his elbow back together. Needless to say, she hasn't been back on it.

All of the girls got these cute vests for Christmas from my mom. Mandy (Ryan's girlfriend), is our model here. My picture was pretty bad.

Jay wants to take bird hunting, so he got a 12 gauge. It was quite the run around buying the thing being an out of state resident and all. My mom bought it for me, which means Jay's not allowed to commit any crimes with it.

Here's mom doing what she's famous for - cooking for a small army. For Christmas eve we had home made breadsticks, wild rice soup, german cabbage soup, chili and TONS of treats. It was fun hanging out with mom's side of the family.





I was nominated by Grandma to wear these festive earrings on Christmas day at my dad's folks.


We hope Christmas was as good to you as it was for us. May the spirit of Christ continue in your lives throughout the New Year.

Midnight making herself comfortable while Jay eats breakfast. Nobody put her up there. She just hopped up. I guess she wanted to see what was going on.

Dad and I hooking up my computer.









We went to the Mall of America one day and saw the "World's Largest Gingerbread House". It really was made out of gingerbread, because you could see people had been eating it. Look closer at the picture with Liberty standing in front and you can see the tops of the gumdrops have been eaten off.














Liberty with a really big dog (great pyrenees) named 'Rufus'. He is a gentle giant. He belongs to my mom's friend.

Liberty's 5th birthday party with her prince and princess friends. L to R: Brooklyn Grant, Ashlyn Grant, Samantha Wilson, Carter Grant, Lindsey Cascaddan & McKenzie Steele.

They made necklaces and crowns, had a fashion show, ate cake and ice cream, opened presents and hit a rainbow (Liberty's idea) pinata. McKenzie said it was the best party she had ever been too. I don't know about that, but they had fun playing together one last time before we moved.