Merry Christmas 2011

Merry Christmas everybody! I thought I would post what we did for Christmas cards this year. Here is a picture of some of the cards we made.

We made them by cutting Christmas shapes out of the kids paintings. And here are the little painters. Here is what we did for our Christmas letter:

Merry Christmas. We are actually doing a Christmas letter this year. We have all done some significant things this year.

Brian—Amazed us all with his handy manliness. He built a giant dog house for the dog we got this year, fixed our septic tank saving us thousands of dollars, and put up a horse fence so that Red could come out. At work he recently passed his biannual requalification and is still surviving shift work. At church he is serving in the nursery and thinks it is the best calling ever.

Karalee—Watched her car die, and then promptly learned how to drive Brian’s car which is a stick shift. We just replaced the car with a mini-van because she is also currently cooking baby number 3. She donated her hair this year with her annual hair cut. At church she is serving as the primary second counselor and is loving it.

Joshua-Learned how to do his business in the toilet…or on the ground, but not in his pants anymore. He is working on pre-reading and pre-writing skills and would be more advanced except mommy got tired when she started cooking #3. He loves trains and is teaching Minna to love trains too. He is just finishing up his last year of nursery.

Minna-Learned to walk, talk, run, sass, and get her brother in trouble all this year. She is our little drama queen, but is also absolutely hilarious. She is obsessed with “Horsey” and is starting to be obsessed with trains. She just started attending nursery legitimately, but has been going to nursery ever since Brian was called there.