Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was our busy day this year. In the morning we were glad to see we still had some snow from the blizzard the week before.

Off we went to Grandma and Grandpa Lehndorfers house. For the first time in years we actually had a fire in the fireplace. A staple when Daddy was growing up. Isaac loved playing the Nintendo and Rebekah warmed up to Chewy (the dog) rather quickly.

Grandpa Karl helping Isaac opening a gift.

Grandma Linda made all the grandkids beautiful scarves.

Isaac was elated with his new WALL-E toys.

Rebekah also loved hers but appeared to be slightly more excited.

We all rotated one seat to make Mommy laugh.

Not much left of our snowman. Just the buttons, arms and nose.

Then we went back home for Christmas Eve at our home with Tori’s family. Unfortunately, Angi and her family stayed home because they thought they might get stuck due to another storm.

Rebekah didn’t want to keep waiting to open the presents.

Bama was all smiles with her granddaughters.

Papa tried to get the kids to smile and sit still but to no avail.

What a surprise. A baby for Rebekah.

The usual new pajamas.

It was a wonderful day. The children loved every bit of it. This makes for a very good schedule. We visit the families on Christmas Eve and have Christmas Day at home.

Isaac’s Kindergarten Christmas Concert

Isaac and his kindergarten class had a Christmas concert back on 12/10. They did very well. The best part was when Isaac was the only student on the stage not dancing with the 9 ladies dancing. He said boys don’t dance.

No he’s not the one picking his nose. Isaac has the red Santa Claus tie on.

High Quality Modern Art

Since he started Kindergarten Isaac has become much more of an artist. He loves to draw. Consequently, Rebekah loves to do it also. Isaac already complains that Rebekah wants to do everything he is doing. Ironically, he is often just like her. Here are two recent drawings they did.

Here is Isaac’s.

That’s a picture of WALL-E in the middle surrounded by aliens.

And Rebekah’s.

Truly a masterpiece. No seriously, it’s better than most modern art. At least you can tell that it’s supposed to be a person.

Isaac was bored

When Isaac woke up  this morning he crawled out of bed and flopped on the couch. A few minutes later he finally said something: I am bored. That is not the right thing to say to Mommy. She doesn’t allow that kind of talk. So she told him to write something. Isaac said we don’t write on the Sabbath. So Mommy told him to write a list of things he can do on the Sabbath. He said he could only write his testimony. So here is what he wrote.

We are very proud of him. By the way, Daddy was stuck at work when this happened so I hope I got the story right.

SNOW!!!

We finally got some snow. Everyone was ecstatic. Here are some pictures. It has been snowing for at least 4 hours now and doesn’t look like it is going to slow down. School was cut to a minimum day so hopefully Mommy can come home early. Maybe I won’t be able to go to work again. (I missed Monday because the pass was closed due to snow).

This is what we saw when we woke up and started eating breakfast.

The front of the house.

Isaac’s christmas tree. The snow isn’t sticking to everything.

Rebekah and Daddy made a snowman.

It is really coming down. I took this from our garage.

The slideshow.

Rebekah’s Drawing

Isaac and Rebekah love having this in the house. Here is what Rebekah drew today.

Funny Rebekah

Rebekah is a crack up. This morning I went in and turned the lights on to wake up the kids. I said “It’s raining” and Isaac just grunted and didn’t move a muscle. Rebekah slowly sat up a bit with her head bowed. She say there for several seconds and then put her left hand over her left ear and put her right ear back down on the pillow. Then, that not working she put the pillow over her head. It was downright hilarious.

St. Nick

We had our annual St. Nick holiday this past weekend. It was a great deal of fun. We all were very surprised to see Dad actually fully engaged and even stir the frosting for the cookies. All the children were there and everyone was in a jolly mood. Here is a link to the pictures that can be downloaded for printing.

http://picasaweb.google.com/Lehndorfers/StNick#

 

The slideshow! (The slideshow is better at the link above.) :)

Sleeping

This one is for Kiley. We all love it when our children are asleep. Tori and I always are taking pictures of the children when they are asleep. They really are too cute while they are sleeping.