Days 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12

 Day 12 - Paint a suncatcher

Day 13 - Make feet reindeer

Day 14 - Make pine cone bird feeders

 Day 15 - Candy cane a parking lot

Day 16 - Make an ornament

Day 17 - Make paper snowflakes

Day 18 - Watch an animated light show

Days 21, 20, 19

Day 19 - Read your favorite Christmas book

Clockwise - Roman, Levi, Ivy, Mama, Mama, Ezra

Day 20 - Color pictures for children in the hospital

Day 21 - Bake Christmas Cookies

A little early, but we're getting ready for a cookie exchange on Friday with college friends.

Holiday Countdown - Days 24, 23, 22

Day 22 - Visit the arboretum and see the colors of nature show

Very nice holiday displays including an animated show and tall poinsettia tree.

Day 23 - Make a gingerbread house

We headed up to Rum River art center in Anoka and made two clay gingerbread houses. Roman, Levi and Mama. Ivy, Ezra and Daddy.

Day 24 - Hall out the holly, put up the tree

We picked out the tree and put up some decorations. Three days later, we still need to decorate it.

Happy 12th Birthday

We missed posting for this guy's 12th birthday. It was a busy day and weekend.
We picked him up from Bible camp on Friday. Then, on Saturday morning, we went to Valley Fair for the day. After we celebrated with family at grandma and grandpas.

On Sunday he had some friends come over for a games party.

Can't believe how old he's getting!

Happy 8th Birthday Ezra Christian!

Happy Birthday Ezra! We had a great day celebrating his 9th with friends and family at the house. He had requested a few hours at Skyzone trampoline park, but this turned out to be 8 hours of cake, presents, baseball-theme games including a sandlot game at the park across the street, pin the ball on Joe Mauer and water balloon batting practice. The evening ended with lighting off some fireworks in the street with some neighbors. Ezra's choice for food was subs. He asked for a Subway Party Sub, but instead we did a sub-making buffet that was very popular. 

Ezra's birthday starts off a 4-week period where we celebrate Christina's Birthday next on the 29th (41) and Levi's birthday two weeks later on Aug. 8 (12). We're going to be playing a lot of baseball in that time too as Roman and Ezra both start a less-formal Summer Ball program this week that goes until Aug. 10 and Levi has three weekend state Tournaments in July.  Then Ezra and Levi will both be off for short stints at Bible Camp. 

The weather has been great lately and the blessings of God are all around us.

-Sam 

Six Years Old! Times Two!

Shopkins and Transformers were the themes that Ivy and Roman selected for their birthday parties this year. We had a big group of boys over on Saturday afternoon for Roman and girls on Sunday for Ivy's. Then we had some family over for a party on Sunday evening. Today, we start the day with Dunkin Donuts for breakfast and tonight we have baseball and gymnastics and a few gifts from Mom & Dad and siblings to open.