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!

Jayger's 5th Birthday Party

We were invited to Jayger's 5th birthday party at the indoor playground at Mahoney State Park on Friday, August 19th. The kids were so excited - especially when they saw how big the playground was!! He had a monster truck party!

Jayger - the birthday boy was all smiles!

Christie made the cake! There are toy trucks on it and it was so cute!! He had 2 cousins with birthdays close to his, so they celebrated with him!

Mikena was very excited her brother was celebrating a birthday!

Samantha had a blast!

Alden loved his Big Wheeled Cup!

Clair continued to eat after everyone had already left the table to go play! She could eat forever if we let her!

She was a BIG mess!

Jayger opened Samantha & Alden's present - LEGOS!

Alden & Jayger go exploring together!

Clair loved the ball pit!

She liked to jump and then fall into them!

Rock Wall Simulator! The kids got their own try at this! This is Jayger's cousin Jamison who is only 6 years old! She was VERY good at it!

Mikena joined Clair in the ball pit!

The kids had so much fun and they slept very good that night! Thank you to Christie & Mike for inviting us!

Mahoney State Park

We went to Mahoney State Park for a fun fall day in October. We picked Samantha up from school and headed straight there. We took a picnic lunch for the kids and ate right on the boat dock to the lake. We had the place to ourselves, except for some pesky bees! After lunch, we walked a little bit and tried to get some pictures of all 3 kids, but we had no luck! We drove to the tower and we all climbed up it! I carried Clair and Sam & Alden actually walked all the way up! Alden wasn't a fan of the top! We decided to go for a hike in the woods and it was very pretty! Finally, we capped off our day with some time on the playground before we had to head back to Plattsmouth.