Did you guess the Domes?

If you did, you were right! Last Monday, my mom and I spent our annual day at the Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee. We usually go in February, but because there was no school that Monday in January, and the trains were up and running, I figured we would hit it a month early.







I may still take the Monday the kids have off in February and spend it at the Milwaukee Public Museum instead. We'll see. It was a great day and I'll use just about any excuse to spend time with Mom:).

Where am I?

What?

You haven't heard of the "Chimpmunk Dance"? (That's exactly how she says it.)

Well...Elsi has informed me that it's the latest craze. She's got the moves down pat.




Get on board people!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve just isn't Christmas Eve without Grandma Dorothy. Love you Mom!


Isaiah with Grandma and the Nativity he made at school.


Princess all dressed up and no where to go


Ummm, we're working on our smiles for the prince:)

One of Isaiah's favorite gifts


Ben, meets Spot


Santa lovin' on his terrified daughter


Not just one little kiss?


Well...maybe he's not all bad


The big boys have no problem with Santa:)


They received their much coveted gifts from a very generous friend of Steve (Santa). Thanks Mr. Mike! (This is the same gentleman who helped us out here.)

Kinder Place Potluck

This past Tuesday, Kinder Place had its annual potluck. Kinder Place is the daycare at St. Paul's Ev. Lutheran Church, where Elsi attends two days a week. She loves it there and gets lots of good lovin' from the teachers:).

We enjoyed delicious food and fellowship.




We congratulated and celebrated Sue Lindeman's retirement after 25 years of service in various areas of St. Paul's.

We listened to Miss Becky sing a beautiful a cappella solo.


We also listened to a very talented young man, Taylor Heinzel, sing a Christmas song while his dad accompanied on the guitar (both of whom belong to one of our church's praise teams).


Each child that attends Kinder Place received a gift. Elsi was thrilled with her glittery pop-up book and has barely put it down since then.



We are so grateful that our daughter is fortunate enough to attend a Christian day care like Kinder Place. She is shown and taught Jesus' love and forgiveness every day. I wouldn't have it any other way:).

Ahhh, Mom's Christmas cookies:)

There's nothing like them...


delicious Christmas cookies...


warm, right out of the oven...

unless of course, they are one of Grandma Dorothy's cookies. My mom made 34 different kinds of Christmas cookies this year--5 dozen of each! That's over 2,000 cookies! I'm ambitious, but not quite that much. I guess I missed out on that gene:).

Oconomowoc Christmas Parade

In addition to our Scheuer Tree Trimming party on Saturday, we also participated in the Oconomowoc Christmas Parade on behalf of St. Paul's. We had a float, which displayed the manger scene. The kids tossed candy to the crowd and we handed out flyers inviting people to our Christmas Production, Journey to Christmas. It was chilly, but sunny.

Mike Papa, the Wise Man (or as we called him, the Wise Nun:))


Coach Papa & Isaiah (Mike is Isaiah's awesome basketball coach)


Elsi & Elizabeth, the angels


Elizabeth helping Benny tie his shoe (he was having trouble because he had gloves on).


Jeff Stache, another Wise Man (we called him the Sorcerer:))


Josh, a very happy shepherd


Ben & Isaiah as shepherds


We had a great time and it was a wonderful opportunity to witness about the birth of our Savior.