Christmas

Love them deerly

Decorating Christmas cookies at church 

Making requests to Santa 

Pop and Nonie took the kids shopping and out to dinner a couple weeks before Christmas 

Did I mention the kids got me on snapchat filters....well it got weird with this Christmas one, imagine me moving to music- it had us laughing hysterically! 

Christmas morning Snowman pancakes 

Yummy breakfast!

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Then we drove to the Fire Station because Caleb was working on Christmas day 

Caleb took them on a brief ride in the fire engine around Wasco  

We played basketball  

The guys didn't have many calls while we were there.  They did go out a couple of times and the kids waved goodbye 

Waving as they pulled back in. 

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Great Christmas at the fire station

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Shopping with Corben...I mean Santa  

Nerf gear gifts

Haushalter Christmas

We had the Haushalter family come up to our house for lunch and a gift exchange for the kids.  

We thought we would do a few crazy faces 

Well everyone thought Kathleen had a stroke in this picture

We all laughed even harder! 

This girl can pose! 

Christmas siblings! 

Then we went to our church for a Candlelight service 

Corben, Mason, Noah 

Eli, Papa John, Uncle Paul and Meme 

Then our for Teppanyaki...our 4th annual Christmas eve dinner

Family Pictures

Love this one of Caleb and the kids 

Handsome Corben 

I am waiting to get the individual of Mason and will add soon.

School performances

Horrible pictures, but Corben is there somewhere.  He is middle, 2nd row 

Mason is top row, ~6 from the left...I think  

Friends and Christmas= FUN

Brooklyn, Mason, and Addison went to a paint day.  They actually started with a blank canvas and were taught step by step to draw their Christmas tree and present filled truck. 

Great artists!

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Then we had our Life group over for a Christmas party

We called it "Let's Get Festive!"

I forgot to take pictures, but did get some of the kid's gift exchange which we played by rolling the dice and following a few commands to pass the present left or right or steal, well the little ones had a hard time with it, but gave us all a great laugh! 

Mason's Doll Closet

Mason has two closets in her room and this one just had all her dolls on the ground. 

Well her awesome Dad put shelves in and we decorated it like a doll house for her American Girl dolls 

Making Tamales

Melanie invited us over to learn to make tamales.

She had the masa ready and the pork to fill them made. We put masa on the husks and filled with pork and rolled up and then steamed them.   

Mason, Brooklyn, Corben, and Addison 

We also made sweet tamales with a sweet masa and we put in fresh pineapples

So yummy!

Gingerbread Houses

Well this year we took a turn and made Gingerbread DOG houses! 

Corben's soccer team

Great coaches John and Johnny with Corben

They both go to our church so it has been fun to see them more often, their grandson/nephew, Mateo is the same grade as Corben in school.