Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas! We hope your Christmas holiday has been as blessed as ours. We went to Denver on Christmas Eve and had lunch with Greg, Vicki, Sam and Katy Morris, June Syverson (Grandma), Chris and Jo Sheets and Rob, Elena and Hope Wolf. We went to mass in Greeley on Christmas Eve. Today we had Christmas dinner with Kent's brother Rick at our house. Lots of snow and wind and cold! A very white Christmas.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Emmy and her Webkins family

Christmas dinner

Lunch in Denver - the grandkids played UNO with Grandma.

Jake and Katy scheming moves for UNO


Hope's new Dora slippers

Katie

Jacob on Christmas morning

Our day has been nothing but fun!

St. Mary Music Program

Mr. Wiley, the band director

Tonight was the band and choir concerts for St. Mary's. Jacob played the saxophone and Emily played the flute in the Cherub Band. It was very nice.

Emily's Winter Dance Recital

Emily had her winter dance recital tonite. All of the girls did a great job! They are all starting to look SO grown up!

The St. Mary Autumns

with ATTITUDE!

Emily with Mrs. Kathy (her dance instructor)

"O Holy Night"

Mrs. Millman helps Emmy with her hair

St. Mary Autumn's

Stretching for the big show

Matt and Jake clowning around

"The First Noel / Mary, Mary"

Winter Wonderland!

Jacob and Emily enjoyed a day of sledding at UNC with their friends Kylie and Matt Lyman. We capped the night off with a viewing of the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie.

Kylie and Emmy are ready for action!

Jake and Matt size up the slope

Emmy catches some air

Matt has a need for SPEED

Happy Thanksgiving!!

A very cold and snowy Thanksgiving morning!

Which one is the real turkey?

We spent Thanksgiving in Sterling with Gram and Papa. Kris, Don and Daniel were there as well as Rick and Bob and Grandma Lauer. We all ate too much turkey (of course).




As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Emily's last game

Emily played her last game of the season in Arvada. The Fusion won 2-0. The team they played had been undefeated. They had a great season. Some of the other teams in her division have make-up games to play, so we don't know the final rankings. They will be 1st, 2nd or 3rd in their division.

Emily as St. Emily de Vialar

Emily wrote a report on St. Emily de Vialar for school. She presented her report to her class on All Saints Day in costume. She did all the research and writing herself. It was a very good presentation and report.

Happy Halloween!

We continued our Halloween tradition by spending the evening with the Pierce's. Kris provided a great spread as usual. We had a fabulous time with the ghouls.

Jake and Steven (scary without costumes)

Attitude!

Emmy and Kris as Elphaba (Jr and Sr)

Some of the neighbor's (and Emmy and Jake in the back)

Brady from next door as Zirk

Soccer in Grand Junction

It was a "nail biter"

Emily and Ann travelled to Grand Junction last weekend and spent the night for her soccer game. The game ended in a tie which is better than a loss any day. We took a quick trip through the Colorado National Monument. Neither of us had ever been. It ended up being a beautiful side trip!

Key West and Cozumel

The rain came down
5 unlikely pirates!
Formal wear

Royal Caribean
Sunset over Miami
Sloppy Joe's in Key West
Hard Rocco in Key West
Stud and his babe

We adults took a quick cruise (5 days) from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Key West, FL then to Cozumel, MX October 18-25th. The Nally's and Fr. Rocco joined us.