Christmas at Grandma's and Grandpa's 2012

We had our first Christmas in Fargo with my parents.  We usually do that, so this year was no exception!

Grandpa Dave was reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to Alyssah.  She has such a goofy face here!  I love it!

Much better! ;)

Alyssah and her fancy dress, and Kit in the same dress!

Jake relaxing waiting for some good food from my mom!  They were hungry!

Josh all handsomed up after church on Christmas eve :)

All the presents!  The kids will be excited in the morning!

Alyssah with her pile!!

Josh with his!

Molly waiting so patiently <3 p="p">

Jake and Mark with there piles of presents!

Josh was pretty excited about his gift card to scheels!  They LOVE gift cards!

A new game for the DS!

Alyssah LOVES little dolls, and these are perfect!

Josh got Jake a basketball for Christmas!  He was SUPER excited!

Alyssah with her Disney gift card!  They each got one worth $50! Perfect to use at Disneyland, then we don't have to worry about carrying cash!

My mom and her book!  She loves to get them!  My Grandma LOVED hers too!  I am glad I make them for them, especially because they love it!

Alyssah gave Daddy a hunting cup!

Josh was really excited about his cell phone cover!  It is Vikings!

Looking at Lights!

We took the kids out looking at lights, shortly before christmas.  They had fun, and I am glad we did this.  Alyssah would get really excited to see different houses.

 

 

All ready to go!

 

There were a lot of houses that looked like this!

 

A good time was had by all!

COOKIES!

My kids LOVE decorating cookies!  I don't like to do it, but they love it, so we do it!  They are so happy to help me out!

 

 

Jake and Alyssah doing their christmas trees, they really thought it was cool to make them!

 

I had enough stuff to make, so they made 3 each!

 

Josh waited til the next day to make his.

 

Sugar cookies!!  (big pain in the butt, but they really love it)

 

Frosting them!  They each made one special for Santa too.

 

 

 

This one was special for Alyssah!  She gobbled this up shortly after the picture was taken :)

Jake also worked hard on his too.

 

Josh didn't care really to decorate many, he did a few, I think he thinks he's too cool for this! Haha! ;)

Sonshine Chior

My girl LOVES sonshine choir!  I am glad she does, she LOVES to sing too!  I love watching her, she does really well.  She loves going to church and working with Paster Hendrickson and Sue!

 

 

She was singing with just the sonshine choir here.

 

Here she was singing with the big choir too, for there christmas choir concert.

Alyssah's winter Dance

Alyssah loves dancing! She has a bigger class this year, it is fun to watch her dance!  She is pretty good at it too.

 

 

They were dancing in Underwood for the Winter Holiday Dance

 

Such a poser!

 

She spotted us!

 

 

 

All done!

School Winter Concert

Jake and Alyssah had there school concert program a few weeks ago.  They did great, and they looked great too!

 

 

I love how much the younger grades sing so good!  They don't care who hears them, or how they sound, they sing there hearts out!

 

 

 

Jake LOVES playing his recorder!  He couldn't wait for us to see him!

 

He also sang great too!

 

 

 

They look so cute!