Happy New Year

We made Nachos for dinner.

Cheesy Puffs for a snack - it is a special night.

We hadn't gotten around to making our gingerbread house before Christmas so we got it done tonight.

19th Annual Westfork Literary Society

It was the warmest weather I ever remember for the Westfork Literary Society. We were outside much of the day and took our dray rides.

Mikko loved the dray ride so much he took the next one with Britta.

Making the traditional Tom and Jerry's.

Lots of laughs.

A celebratory toast. Waiting for the meeting to start. Loved that all the little kids had saved their spots in the front of the room. There were about 40 people this year.

David loved listening to all the readings and wanted to do his own.

Nissa always opens the meeting.

Lucia fast asleep.

Win, Viv and Berit did their own version of 12 days of Christmas. It was so fun to see that the kids love the tradition of the WLS as much as the adults.

Shack Fun!

Wheelin' with Auntie Carrie
Taking the kids for a ride.

David got a real rocket for Christmas from Santa! We headed down to the Peterson Field to set it off.

The kids were pretty excited for the big event. Damon spent lots of time putting the model rocket together. We didn't know how it would go!

Waiting for the launch.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.....

Chasing the rocket. It went so high in the sky it was hard to track.

Another launch.

So many fun things to do at the Shack.

Taking Mikko for a ride behind the 4-wheeler.

Mikko loved sledding down the hill. Pure smiles.

David got an awesome hockey hat from the Frasers.

Santa Came!

Christmas Eve turned into an interesting night of sleep for the Lee Family. Mikko would NOT sleep and I mean it. We were up for hours with him. Luckily The Christmas Story marathon was on and I watched it about 3 times for entertainment in the middle of the night. And then, at about 3AM David came out of the bedroom puking all over the place. He was up for a couple hours throwing up. I really thought Christmas would be ruined for him, but to my delight, when he woke up (on the living room floor) in the morning he instantly remembered that Santa came and snuck into the room super excited about the day!
Mikko's first glimpse at the train that was running on the track.

He was so delighted!

I don't think any of his other toys were as exciting!

Super awesome pick-up truck and 4-wheeler.

And a Transformer - couldn't get any more "boy" that this!

Grandma read him his new Thomas Christmas book.

Mikko literally spent the day watching his train.

We built tunnels for it to go through.

Christmas Eve at the Shack

Merry Christmas from the Cousins! Love Greta's pose in this one.
And the goofy one!

Bobby wrapped Mikko up like a present. Bobby and Greta just absolutely love Mikko and think he is the cutest thing. A couple things they commented about Mikko:

Bobby - "Can we keep him?"

Bobby - "How could you EVER say "no" to him?"

The kids were so proud to give G and G their homemade Xmas present.

Mikko didn't want to be in this picture and we get a great view of David.

Feeding the reindeer.

Getting our traditional Scandinavian dinner ready. David helped Carrie butter and sugar the lefse.

Damon riced the potatoes.

The special Christmas wine. He got lots of grief for this!

Waiting for the lutefisk and Swedish meatball feast!

They loved drinking milk out of wine glasses.

There were so many presents they were stashed in the bunkbed.

Grandma got a kindle fire - she was speechless.

The wrapping paper was everywhere.

Jimmy laid in the middle of the chaos and didn't move a muscle.

Getting the cookies for Santa ready.

Santa was a busy guy. He even had time to set up a train for Mikko.