Christmas in the Black Hills

We had a very Merry Christmas with the Hauans!  Thank you, Mark and Gloria, for making our vacation so special.

We hope your Christmas was filled with lots of love and fun.  Enjoy the pictures... I hope to get some videos uploaded later.

A view from the deck.



Hauan Family 2012

We had so much fun playing with the kids!  Haune created a 3 room tent for the kids to play in one cold afternoon.

Master bedroom/living room view.

Two special little girls got a rainbow polish pedicure.

And all of the cousins had a blast in the bathtub together.

Julia was able to go sledding for the first time in the Black Hills.

Calboy got lots of cuddles from Papa Mark...

... and "Glamma" Gloria.

The girls had a little picnic with Great-Grandma Donna.

December 2012

 

March 2010

We had fun seeing the lights at Storybook Island... even though it was a VERY cold night.

Santa and Mrs. Claus were at Storybook Island too!  What a deal!

This is the best picture out of seven that I took...

Two good little eaters.

A new family favorite: SHRIMP BOIL!

Voila!

 

Christmas morning...

Two little princesses

Cousin love.

Our Alma Mater



'Twas the Week Before Christmas...

Just a few pictures to get caught up before Christmas.

From our family to yours, MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy 2013!!!  We'll blog again in the new year!

"Thanks, Barb, for the box full of wonderful surprises you sent us!" 

"I love my dress up princess!"

"This book will keep me busy for a couple of minutes, cool!"

We like to go visit Santa at a beautiful mall close to our house.  Since I
didn't want to pay $40.00 for a picture of the kids on his lap, here's
an ariel view of the display.  It's quite pretty.  It's all set up in the middle of the foutain.

We caught him snoozing like this and just had to take a picture.

One night while Daddy was writing a paper, the kids and I walked to the zoo with some friends to see the special Christmas
lights display.  It was a beautiful night and really beautiful scenery as well.

Cal, Julia, Isaac, and Levi checking out Frosty.

Even puppets were available for the little ones.

Our pirate princess.



This and That

To get you caught up:

The first two videos are of Cal walking.  Looking at him today though make these seem like ancient history.  He's nearly running it seems!

 

Video taken December 11, 2012


Video taken December 11, 2012

Bib Babe December 2012

Bib Babes December 2011

She's pretty excited to be able to decorate (and un-decorate) her own
Christmas tree in the toy room.  Sometimes Cal decides to help too.

The Sem had a fun Children's Christmas party for the kiddos.  We all had a blast!

This one was her favorite: She was a shepard trying to get all of the sheep (white balloons)
into the pasture (a circle of chairs).  She LOVED it.

Since my kids at school are studying a Gingerbread Man unit, I just do the same thing with Julia at home.  So far,
we've compared/contrasted various characters and endings, predicted the plot, counted Gingerbread Men...

... but this has been BY FAR her most favorite activity!

Gingerbread House

"Thanks for the great shirts, Cindy!  Our Mom LOVES them!"