It's Sunday, are you ready for some football??

One of Keaton's gifts, I believe from Santa Claus, was a uniform and helmet for the Seattle Seahawks. Yes, not Viking attire, that's true, but Keaton tends to watch a little Seahawk football with his dad, so it was inevitable.

Keaton looks like a natural, and check out the follow through of his right arm in the one photo. D-I all the way!!!

Christmas break means more sledding and ice skating

The whole family had the opportunity to participate in some outdoor sports this past week and it was a lot of fun. We've added a couple little snippets of video from the day to this post. The first is of Kelsey and Kari sledding, note Keaton is in the foreground. The other, which doesn't have a preview picture of it for some reason, is Kayleigh sledding.

Reindeer can sing!

Keaton had his holiday program at "Packer Playland" in West Fargo last week. With a little inclement weather and it being held over Christmas break, the attendance was low, but the kids enjoyed themselves and performed about 8 songs. Keaton didn't sing a lot (ok, perhaps not at all), but he stayed on stage and had fun. Perhaps that was due to the cookies afterwards!!

It's Christmas Eve - beware of flying gift wrap.

Christmas Eve started with our customary church service at Hope Lutheran Church in north Fargo, the same site where we were married back in 1991. The kids thought that was kind of interesting, and we almost weren't able to find a spot in the church. Despite being 15 minutes early for the service, it was already standing room only; which negated our belief that with a south campus built years ago to help with a growing congregation, space wouldn't be a huge issue. Plus, they had 4 services that day and we thought the 3:00 PM would be slow. Proven wrong!

After the service, we ate dinner and opened presents. Keaton, at 3 years old, was very much into the whole process this year. We had Daniel's sister's Denise and Deb over for the evening, and the kids really enjoyed it.

Christmas Tea for you and me!!

Today was Kelsey's Christmas Tea Party at Jefferson Elementary. All parents were invited, yet weren't told much about the function other than cookies, juice, and songs would be present. Most parents were amazed to see not their kids, but a pack of reindeer singing songs to the whole group. Luckily, when they took off their antlers, we were able to see they were actually kindergartners dressed like reindeer. Parents each got to read a Christmas book to their child and spent some time with them enjoying the refreshments.

Sleds, snow, and kindergartners

Kelsey is very lucky to have a great group of Kindergarten teachers. They have a lot of activities and another parent remarked last week how we have so much fun stuff going that they miss out on. Today, Kelsey had a gift exchange at school in the morning, and in the afternoon went sledding. Approximately 80 youngsters hit the hill!!

The Tree is built!

The kids enoyed putting up the Christmas tree and are excited for Santa to show up. Keaton, in particular, is really in tune with the season at 3 years old, and will be a whirlwind when it's time to open presents.

Christmas this year will be in Fargo with Dan's sister Deb coming from Bismarck to enjoy the festivities and watch the madness of present opening.

The kids took a great photo at the local nursery with Santa Claus and we took the opportunity to shoot a few photo's on their train caboose that was decked out with trim for the holiday season. A highlight for Keaton!