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The phone has been holding my photos hostage but I outsmarted it.. this time. 

 Magic at the Mill 

 We talked our good friend into joining us...somehow I got stuck by Santa and Greta was far away??? hmmm... 

 Christmas Eve 

 Christmas Eve hike 

 From the game cats.. I drew this picture of Jeff... 

 Driving to Eugene with Gret. Most kids would read or play a video game. She grabbed a lego catalog and added up the price of EVERYTHING in the catalog for FUN. It was over $10,000 by the way. Catalog math...she loves it. She usually likes to just add it up in her head. 

Mr. Santa impersonator.. "I would like real estate and army toys" Merry Christmas 2017

Christmas Day

 This early riser slept in a bit this year and we were thankful..

 this teen slept in very late...

 From Fieldin 

 Christmas dinner with our Oregon family. I love them. 

Christmas Eve

 After church we took the kids to the carousel. So many hours of volunteer time and so worth it! 

 Fieldin making schnitzel and Greta making a blueberry cranberry crisp

 These two....

 gift time 

 Christmas eve game time and Fieldin throwing reindeer food out into the street in the rain. 

Around Here

Around here, we had a wonderful Christmas and looking forward to the new year. 

 The kids annual drawn ornaments on linen 

 Grets ugly sweater cookies 

 Catching this guy by the tree... mine, mine, darn...mine, mine darn.. 

 lots of puzzles 

 The kids spare room which has been dubbed the music room seems to be busy this break.. 

 Helping make cinnamon rolls 

 lil' man's letter to Santa. He "hopes" to be on the good list... 

 The kitty has been finding so much fun Christmas stuff to play with...

 No snow here..

 Tis' the season for snowman pancakes

 and more puzzles 

I had more pictures to share but my phone is holding them hostage.. technology.. arghh

Lil' Actor

lil' man was pretty excited that he got a bigger speaking part in his school play/concert. He entertained us all. He acted.

he did the hulu among some other awesome dancing. 

He also sang songs... Good job lil man! 

Robotics For The Eldest

 Well, Fieldin didn't make it to state but this girl did. She and her fellow fintastic fish team. They played ukes and sang songs during down time during the competition.

 and yes, they made lego glasses. Her team below( one 9th grader, Greta a 7th grader and 3, 5th graders) It is one smart group of gals.

 Robot challenges above and below

 They were asked to go in front of everyone at closing ceremonies and sing one of their songs they made up for competition... 

 Winning their trophy and heading onto state competition next month. 

 The winners..(above) 

 Some of the teams. My girl and my boy!!! Can you find them?? I am one proud mama. 

 Sadly, I was taking care of the boys team and didn't coach Greta's team so I wasn't able to watch any of their presentations but I did get to see a couple of their robot runs. They did amazing. Great job Fintastic Fish. Good luck at State!