We celebrated Christmas at our home on December 22nd. So the night before we put out a piece of Jesus’ Birthday Cake for Santa and some celery for the reindeer. Faith thought she needed to taste test the cake before she would go to bed.
After the kids went to bed, the fun began for us because Santa came to our house!!! He needed to come a little early being that we would be in Iowa for Christmas. The next morning, Faith was the first one up and we went downstairs and she walked right past the tree, then all of the sudden stopped, turned and sat down next to the presents. I didn’t wrap up the Little People House and accessories, so she spotted that right away and wanted to play with the car that was in the bag. Once Noah woke up, he was all about opening the presents. It was so fun watching their expressions when they would open a new present.
December seemed to keep us busy…we built a gingerbread house, seen Santa, Grandpa and Grandma Nielsen came down to visit, went downtown to Union Station and Crown Center, dressed Faith up in her Christmas dress for church, celebrated Christmas at our home and back in George with the family!!!
I know I am WAY behind on the website, so I will just highlight some big events in the last couple of months….first is Thanksgiving.
We hosted Thanksgiving down in KC this year. Ryan, Dee, Jack, Nick, Renae, Micah, Kahle, Bodee, and Reid all come down for the holiday. It was so great having everyone here and it was such great weather, that we got to play at the park and outside. The kids even raced bikes and scooters at night!
This last weekend, the Arends clan come to stay with us!!! It’s always a good time while they are here! Although they did make me go shopping….AND buy some new jeans! Ask my sister, that’s a big accomplishment!!!! They must have caught me in a really good mood or something!!!
Noah actually slept in the living room with all the kids during the night…they had their own little slumber party!!! Sunday night after they left, Noah asked when they were coming back because he wanted to sleep with them!!!! How cute is that!
Here’s a short little video of Faith dancing a few weeks back. We were going to have a drive-way movie at the neighbors house, so while we were setting up, we just had some music playing. She kept wanting to stand right next to the speakers and dance. She is dancing to the song “Miss Independent” in this video…I think the song was written for her!
And for those of you who get the email, you can’t see the embedded video, so here is the link: http://youtu.be/LUTgS4aiazM
