Hello All!
Here are some pictures from the Holiday Season. Kindrid and Brennen both participated in the "Bethlehem Project" which was the theme of our church Christmas program this year. Kindrid is bottom, left in the first picture, and Brennen is top middle in the second.
Kindrid with one of several school projects to celebrate the season...
Between the blizzards, we snuck in a trip to Minnesota for Christmas with our families. We got in a quick visit to the Mall of America so Kindrid could [finally] get her birthday gift - a new American Girl doll. Brennen had fun at the Lego store! We also got to see my Grandma Huber and then headed up to Brainerd for a too-short visit with both our extended families. Here's me with my niece, Kallie. Can you tell how much she LOVES her Auntie Christy?? 
Auntie Carleen helped her three nieces with making hors d'oeuvres for the Amerud Fam Christmas. How could she go wrong with these great helpers?
The pictures I took at Todd's family home didn't come out right. Sad...I would have had some great ones of the gang playing our new Wii and of Pa Ben and Uncle Matt carving the prime rib! It was spectacular. :O) We also had the pleasure of attending Lakewood E. Free's Christmas Eve service in Baxter. Lovely worship, lovely music, lovely view of the snow falling on the north woods through the windows!
After a round of migraines lasting a couple days on my part and a long week back to work on Todd's, we elected to spend New Year's Eve with just our little family. We watched TV, played Apples to Apples Junior and celebrated in the New Year with those little popper things - and were in bed by like 12:01!
We've enjoyed having the kids off school for three weeks. They head back tomorrow. I'm ready for there to be a bit more routine in our lives, but will miss them and the leisurely pace of these past weeks.
Hope your New Year is off to a great start!
Love,
Christy
