Coming our way....June 2011!

We are MORE than thrilled to annouce that baby Newberg will be joining our family in June of 2011! Please pray for a healthy baby and healthy mama!!!

Christmas program at FCC

Soren's 2-4yr old class at the Cmas program.One cute red-head!

The weatherman was right....this time!!

This weekend was our annual Lorie Line, yummy supper, parents night out with the Brandel's. This ND girl was DETERMINED to get there!! We left on Saturday am traveling via Hwy 12 and had absolutely no problems! We saw many other cars traveling and no one in the ditch! My thought was that if we could get to the cities it would be NO problem to get to the concert! Well, I was wrong. It didn't take us long once we got into the cities to realize that getting to my cousins in Eden Prairie to drop off Soren was going to be interesting!! At one point, due to frozen windshield wipers, both Scott and I had our heads peaking out of the van to visualize where we were going!! We began to see many cars/trucks in the ditch. After the first 3 miles, we just wanted to get to Eden Prairie and be safe! Well, after some stressful driving, Scott pushing us out (with dress shoes on) more than once!!! We made it to Tammy's!!! Matt & Nancy were unable to make it to the concert also! SO....we met for breakfast this morning at Perkins!! A far cry from the yummy steak/seafood we were going to have last night. But, everyone is safe and no accidents were encountered by our families! It was nice to see my cousin and husband. Enjoy lots of good food, snuggle up next to the fireplace and watch movies! We are very thankful for the warm place that we had to sleep!! Apparently we should have listened to the weatherman this time and stayed home!!!

Cousin Sara's 5th Birthday

Last weekend we headed up to ND to celebrate our niece Sara's 5th birthday!! What excitement there was as presents were opened, toys played with and just being around all the cousins!!Princess Sara and her cake.

The boy cousins: Soren, Micah, Ben, and Josiah.

Grammie Sue and Princess Signe

Sara having a good time opening presents!!!

Having a great attitude...

Our bedtime conversation on Sunday night was:
Soren: Mom, do you have to go to work tomorrow?
Me: Yes, I do.
Soren: Mom, have a good day with your co-workers.
Me: Thanks, I will!
Soren: Mom, PLEASE remember to have a GREAT ATTITUDE!!

How do you respond to that other than just smile and say, "Thanks, buddy!"

Soren's opinion is....

After supper the other night Soren said to Scott, "Two thumbs up on supper dad! Thanks!!" Who knew that beef stroganoff (sp?) could get such a great rating!!

It's finally here...

Sorry, there are no pics of today since my camera batteries are dead and I absolutely COULD NOT find 4 good ones! Uggh!! Anyways, we finally went out last night and purchased our Cmas tree! I think this is the latest that we've ever decorated for Cmas. I've worked that last 5 days and so finding a time for us ALL to get out was impossible! Anyways, Soren woke up today SO SUPER excited to decorate our tree! He didn't even care to eat breakfast (which is very rare that he'd pass up food). So, by 8.15am we were unpacking all the decorations from the basement! He was intent on finding a tractor ornament and wouldn't stop 'unpacking' until we found it! He loved playing with all the decorations! For the better part of the morning only the bottom half of my tree was decorated:-)!! We stayed in our jammies, had hot cocoa, put on the Cmas music and just enjoyed the morning! We've finally begin our official celebrating of the season of Jesus' birth!! However, Soren wants to know what he should bring Jesus on his birthday...I guess we'll have to keep talking about that one!?!?!