Elbow, Omaha Children's Museum Models, USAF Band, Sunday School Christmas Program, Christmas Parties, Sam Wins a Hot Dog, and Ice Skating at Mahoney!

Sam and Alden went to the Christmas Carol at the Omaha Community Play House with Grandma and Grandpa McKnight While Clair went to the ER because of a dislocated elbow.  Guess which arm.

All better!

Michelle teaches Body Combat, a Les Mills program, at the Plattsmouth Community Center.  Les Mills had a Quarterly Workshop in Omaha at the Downtown YMCA. These are instructors from our gym that went with Michelle!

Sam's beauty school. 

They kids were the cover models for the Omaha Children's Museum for the Construction exhibit. 

And for the New Year Eve party.

We took the kids to the Heartland of America Band Christmas Concert.  

They got to meet Santa, Clair screamed.

Michelle and Sam in the Holland Center

Doug and Alden rockin' the matching sweaters.  Also with us that night was Grandma Nancy and Sandy and Grandpa Jim.  The kids sat through the concert very well!

Sunday School Christmas program was the True Meaning of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

Sam was the first day of Christmas.  She did Great with her lines!

McKnight Family Christmas!  Scott and Max hanging out.

Michelle and Max also chilling.

Clair and Alden decided to be stinkers and not pose well for pictures.  You can guess how that frustrated Michelle.

Samantha's Kindergarten class Christmas party.

Jim and Doug took Sam and Alden to a Husker basketball game.  Sam got picked to be in a game at half time.  They put all the kids shoes in a pile at center court. Then they had to run and put them on and come back and make a basket.  Samantha found the girl in blue's shoes for her because they had the same type of boots.  

She almost made it to the hoop.

She won a hot dog for playing.  Alden was the real winner.

Then the kids hung out with this guy in a Santa suit.  

Christmas with Great grandma and grandpa McKnight!

They love this little game where they match shapes and Grandpa is good at it too.

Richardson Christmas  Here is the Great Grand Kids.

Nancy with her favorite grandson.

Clair resetting passwords on Melisa's phone.

Holman Christmas!  We played a game that involved this, but it was long over when I took this pic.

The whole group of Great Grand Kids.  All of them seem to be looking at something.

Yep that's it.

Not sure about this one.

BINGO time.

After Christmas there was a nice warm day and we got some Ice time at Mahoney State Park!

And we ran into Shaely and Teresa at the rink.  

So nice that day we even climb the tower! 

Sam and Jayda at the Rose.  

And that sums up most of December 2011!

Holman Christmas - OUR FINAL CHRISTMAS FROM THE 2010 CHRISTMAS SEASON!

Last but not least we finished off Christmas with Doug's Mom's Side of the family. There was lots of noise and fun with lots of little kids there. We some how failed to get a picture of all the kids in attendence. Clair and Aubrey had fun playing together. Sam and Alden enjoyed just watching Nick and Aaron play their Nintendo DS and Aaron's stacking cups tricks. It was a good way to end the Christmas Season.

This is as close as we go to a group photo of the kids. That is Nick with our 3 waiting to open presents.

Clair already enjoying her present with the wreckage of Christmas in the background.

Michelle thowing a bear at me.

Aburey and Clair looking at each other.

Christmas Morning @ Night!

A little dancing before dinner...

Showing off his ornament he got from Grandma & Grandpa

Samantha got some doll clothes for her new American Girl Doll!

Goofy Alden!

We usually celebrate Christmas with Doug's family on Christmas morning, however we had a few other Christmas celebrations to do first. We ended up at Doug's parent's house for dinner on Christmas Day. Greg stayed in Seattle this year, but Auntie Debra & Mike came down from Omaha. Sandy made a delicious dinner for us and a fantastic peppermint cheesecake!

We opened presents and then played for the rest of the evening. Mike got the kids the Despicable Me movie and the silver goggles that Alden is wearing came with it! They looked so funny on him! :)

Christmas Day in Pawnee City

Alden - helping Grandma Nancy make lunch

Aunt Louie with Alden

Can you tell they are all related? (including the doll) :)

Katie, Samantha & Kayla

Clair enjoyed it when Grandma Farmer picked her up!

Alden was so excited about his toolbox!

Clair got away with eating a few sweets, because it was Christmas!

This is only 1/4 of the family!

After we opened presents on Christmas morning from Santa at our house, we jumped in the van and drove to Pawnee City to my grandma Farmer's house. Alden helped Grandma Nancy make mashed potatoes while Samantha played with her new American Girl doll with Kayla & Katie. We had lunch and then the kids opened their presents, but we had to leave before all of the family arrived (because we still had 1 more Christmas that day). Clair got a Duck Pillow from Katie, Alden got a tool box and tools from Zach, and Samantha got a Barnes 'n Noble gift card from Fiona. They also got some books and a movie from Grandma Farmer & Aunt KK.