Christmas in KC

We had fun celebrating Christmas as a small family in KC. Alex got to see all the presents under the tree on Tuesday and had to wait all day before he could open them. He did pretty well waiting. We had to inspect a few to see if we could guess what they were. Our friends Walker and Cynthia came over Tuesday evening and we celebrated Christmas with them. It's been a while since Alex got to open presents, but after the first one he had it figured out. Yesterday we had a brief visit from our friends, Jeff, Alex and Emma, before we headed north to celebrate Christmas with the Jantzen family in Nebraska. Right now it is snowing in Beatrice, so we will have a white Christmas.

This year we are also celebrating another first. Joelle is pregnant and we found out this week that we will be having a little girl. Our due date is May 20. We are very excited and this is a reminder that God does work in mysterious ways. Merry Christmas to all!

On the bus to the Plaza

Opening presents

Gettin' ready for Christmas

We are slowly getting ready for Christmas. We received our annual package of cookies from France and that started off our celebration. We have visited the trains at Union Station and Santa Claus at Crown Center. We still need to drive around and look at more lights, but the weather outside is downright frigid! We have been busy baking lots of cookies too. One more week and then it's off to Oma's house to celebrate.

I get them all!

Alex's garbage truck

Ready to ride

Looking for a big crash

Baking (eating) peppernuts

Making Christmas cards

Hi Santa!

Playing is more fun

Who doesn't love ice cream?